Phone Calls and Walks
What Endure: Ideas I use everyday.
What Endure: Ideas I use everyday.
I don’t usually struggle with making phone calls. But sometimes people take a bit to pick up. And with every passing second comes a chance to make a mistake.
Phone calls are no different than walking in public. An intuitive, monotonous means to an end. We do many such things everyday. We greet our loved ones, we order beverages, we pass by people in cities, and so on. But these routines share another trait; they’re prone to overthinking.
When you think too hard about a greeting or an order, your words come out from a board room of worried supervisors, not your mouth. When you think about making your way through a slightly tight crowed, your movement could make you look like you just robbed someone, not a person with somewhere to be.
You’ve probably thought too hard about a phone call before, so I don’t need to paint you that picture. I typically don’t, but when people take time to pick up, I have the chance to make the mistake of trying to curate an intuitive routine.
I figured that, as long as I know why I’m calling someone, then the words will fly out of my mouth. This applies to you. You know who you are.
You’ve had harder conversations before. You didn’t need a board room meeting with your anxieties to put together a plan that’d fall apart two sentences in. You just responded.
Think about the place you’re going to, not the way you’ll walk there in front of strangers.
Like you, I’m overwhelmed.
Everyday, we get bombarded with a relentless stream of information. All sorts of tips and ideas that we’ll never use. But sometimes, we come across something surprisingly practical in our day-to-day lives. I want to share my stash of that with you. Follow along, and share your own stash with us!