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This is actually excellent advice, and I'm not sure why it's being downvoted. It works well with public speaking and oral language proficiency tests as well. D
by idlewords 10y ago
This is actually excellent advice, and I'm not sure why it's being downvoted. It works well with public speaking and oral language proficiency tests as well.
Don't have two shots. There's a local maximum where you're disinihibited but still not impaired. Find that.
- koolba 10y agoIt's probably being downvoted because people (wrongly) think I meant it as a joke.
- tptacek 10y agoThat trick used to work pretty well for me, but sometime around age 36† my liver crapped out and a single shot of whiskey will now make me break out in a sweat. Alcohol sweat + nervousness + public speaking isn't a great combination. A single cigarette is about 80% as effective for me, without the bad side effect. At a normal rate of public speaking, I'm not sure how significant the health downside of those individual cigarettes might be compared to the alcohol. † I have a brother a year younger than me who reports the same thing happened to him, so this might be genetic.
- idlewords 10y agoYour brother just doesn't want you to steal his liver.