Michael Bungay Stanier

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The One You Feed | Personal Growth, Emotional Resilience & Purpose · How to Tame Your Advice Monster and Become a Better Listener | Michael Bungay Stanier · 5 Jun 2026 podcast

And I'll just casually mention that.

And those feel like slightly corrupted versions of this sense of humility, which is this kind of understanding and comfort with the complexities that we have.

All right.

Be light and be grounded.

Yeah.

If the humble confidence is about how you show up, be light and be grounded feels to me like a way you manage process.

You manage the way you show up and you do things in the world.

And particularly in coaching conversations,

I remember going to a coaching conference many years ago and being really struck by the lack of humor in the room.

There was just this kind of slight self-importance and dourness there.

and unwillingness to see the absurdity of it all.

And also in kind of coaching and in these kind of interactions, there's a way that things can feel and get a little abstract and highfalutin.

And there's something about the very best of process which feels like it is grounded in the moment, it is grounded in reality, it's grounded in a practicality around we're trying to figure some stuff out so you can get some stuff done.

And there's a lightness to it, which is there is a playfulness and there is a humor and there is a kindness and there's a kind of crinkling of the eyes, which is like even in the toughest time, the ability to have this kind of gift of lifting towards the light feels like it can be extremely powerful.

And, you know, an ability to go, oh, it doesn't have to be all serious and it doesn't have to be all grinding it out and grit and getting things done.

And it can't be trivial and it can't be just like, let's crack another joke.

But there's this way of trying to navigating the way you interact with somebody with both lightness and a sense of groundedness can be really powerful.

I feel like I've let myself down and I've let you down as well.

Go change.

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