Thomas Curran

I still don't really.

But push yourself into those situations.

And you realize very quickly that it's not as catastrophic as you think it is when you slip up.

People are typically really good people.

And they will give you so much latitude.

And also, if you show your vulnerability in those moments too, there's almost a sigh of relief in the audience.

Like, oh my God, this person's human.

Yeah.

They, you know, it's, it's quite remarkable when you show that vulnerability purposefully, you know, and you say like, you know, I I'm out my debt fear.

I made a mistake.

I didn't know what I was doing on a particular analysis, whatever it might be in my work.

And suddenly, you know, all these people who are looking at you, who expect this professor to know everything and be everything to everybody and have all across all the areas and all the rest of it is showing like that actually they're not this bulletproof person that you've, you've, you've kind of built them up to be in their mind.

And so, and actually you're like them, but you're just like them.

You, you, you make mistakes, you, you're not perfect and all the rest of it.

Like it's almost like a sea of relief just in everyone's in everyone's face.

And I think that that tells us something really beautiful about a common humanity.

that everybody knows deep down that we're not the perfect people that often we're told we should be in those situations that we have to be.

And I think there's something really nice about that.

So I try to do that too in my own life, try to be as vulnerable as I possibly can and let people know that even professors aren't perfect.

Yeah, that makes sense.