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

I've got to have the perfect all the facts and information.

And in the absence of that.

I just default to character assassination.

I have default to ad hominem attacks where I'm do I'm attacking the person and their character rather than the actual argument that they're trying to make.

And my my assertion here in being curious is one that

Asking questions releases you from having to have all the answers.

Yeah.

And two, if there was something that you could be wrong about, because you can't possibly know all the things, you can't possibly have every answer to every question or every every you can't you just can't.

If there's something that you could be wrong about or or or maybe said another way, if there's something that you don't fully understand, wouldn't you want to know it?

Yes.

Couldn't couldn't more fully understanding someone else's viewpoint that you disagree with actually help you create your argument against it?

Like that's the that's the logic that goes through my big old bald head.

Like I'm

Oh, this was the instructor, not just another student.

This was the instructor.

Yeah.

Yeah, it uh and it could be frustrating.

I I get it and I I want to acknowledge all of that.

This is not this is not easy.

Um certainly uh I I just as much as anybody else, when I when my work is critiqued, when my ideas it are critiqued, I just like everybody else have that little thought uh like little person sitting on my shoulder saying, Well, well, no, you're right.

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