How To – Literally – Sound More Confident and Persuasive
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Conversely, I think this is a large part of why I agonise over emails, and generally prefer to just go and talk to people. When I talk to someone, my attention is on their reactions, and I choose how to say things in response to that. In writing, I'm speculating about how every word will be perceived, spending effort imagining fictional readers.