Michael Bungay Stanier
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505 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 5 Jun
Michael Bungay Stanier’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Partly they're there for you.
They see who you are as a man, as a human, as a person who's had this life and had this journey, and you're role modeling something for them in the way that you are in the world.
When I think of the people who are powerful role models, and I think you're one of these people, Eric, they have this way of embodying a presence that they bring.
And when I think about the self that they bring to the world, there's this idea of this humble curiosity, sorry, this humble confidence.
What I mean by that is by humble, the metaphor I'd use is they've got their feet on the ground.
You know, there's actually a connection between humus, which is a word for ground, and this idea of humility, which is like when you're humble, you've just got a kind of clear eye on the strengths and the weaknesses and the complexities and the messiness and the glory of you.
I know the things that I'm really good at.
and I know the things I'm not really good at, and I'm pretty grounded in that, and I'm pretty relaxed about that.
I hold it lightly.
And this humility allows people to be less brittle, less vulnerable to what's going on.
In part because I kind of imagine they've got not just their feet on the ground, but their toes in the mud.
They're grounded like that, literally and metaphorically.
And the confidence is a kind of coming back to a –
sense of self-belief about the value of who you are and the value of what you do you know i sign my emails with a short phrase which is you're awesome and you're doing great and i kind of stumbled across it by accident i was facilitating something and in a moment of inspiration i got people to look at each other and go hey now say to your partner you're awesome and you're doing great
super awkward the first time the group had to do that.
I think we were in England, which only made it worse because that's not what they say in England.
But I got them to do it another three or four times over the hour and a half.
And by the end, they were like, you are awesome and you are doing great.
And they were high-fiving and some people were hugging and it was great.
And there's something in that phrase, which is fundamentally...
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