Michael Ashford

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523 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 6 Jul

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Speaking With Confidence · How Asking Questions Builds True Communication Confidence · 6 Jul 2026 podcast

We've been taught to be

Sure and certain of what we know, we're gonna be tested on it.

Recall that.

Um, just we we have this, and we it's been modeled and incentivized that the people who talk the loudest, who say it the most, the most frequently are the ones that get the attention.

And so we just model that behavior, that one-way behavior.

Secondarily to that, it's a little bit deeper.

a little bit more uh perhaps uncomfortable for us to to understand is that curiosity feels it at times morally wrong.

If I give oxygen to somebody that I believe is not just wrong about their opinion or their view, but I think they're morally wrong for it.

It feels really dangerous to give them my curiosity, to point my curiosity at them and say, I'm willing to listen to you and hear you out here, even though it may make me uncomfortable.

And I'm not asking for people to go into dangerous situations where they they they are physically or emotionally at risk.

I'm asking for us to get uncomfortable and give our curiosity to somebody at the at for the betterment of understanding where they're coming from.

And that feels really dangerous to a lot of us.

And we've got to be honest about that.

Is it

Yeah.

Uncomfortable or is it dangerous?

Yeah, and Tim, the the thing about that anxiousness

Is uh is often what I've experienced is that that anxiousness comes from me feeling like, okay, I'm gonna be challenged.

My ideas, my beliefs, maybe even my morals are gonna be challenged here.

And I feel this pull of, well, I've gotta have the perfect answer to rebutted.

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