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

But I wanna see education become more well rounded.

I ask people all the time, how many classes were you in in your entire education?

uh experience

Where

You didn't have to have the right answer, or your your right answer could differ from the teacher or the professor's right answer.

There has to be room in you know that you've labeled them the soft skills.

I know some people take offense to that because and I believe communication skills can be taught, uh, just like any other hard skill or trade.

But I I want classes that leave

Space for nuance, complexity, and the possibility that there may be more than one or even two right answers.

How could that possibly be the case, Tim, that there is a right answer for someone's lived experience, for someone's perspective, for issues of morality and issues of emotion?

How could there possibly be a right answer there?

It's not a good thing.

Yeah.

One of my favorite, uh I'll give you one of my favorite dichotomies in all of this that I've learned recently.

It was from a speaker that I actually coached uh as his TEDx talk.

He was talking about in biology there is this um there's this property called stoch stochastic properties.

I said that right.

Stochastic properties.

Basically, uh, you know, the the half-life of a

an organism of a radioactive organism, a radioactive isotope.

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