David_Gerard comments on Mitigating Social Awkwardness - Less Wrong

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Comment author: David_Gerard 01 May 2011 07:49:03PM *  1 point [-]

Yeah, it's a big YMMV. I used to interview people a lot and was frequently appalled to hear what my voice actually sounded like. Then people would tell me what a good phone voice I had. But I do think that in the general case, objectively recording what you're actually doing will be much more informative than not.

Comment author: handoflixue 05 May 2011 10:58:52PM 0 points [-]

I've found Skype conversations rather good for this - it has my video as well as the other person's, and thus increases my awareness of a lot of my body language habits. It also means I'm engaged in a conversation, which seems to bring out significantly different body language.