The Awkwardness of Unscripted Conversation
La incomodidad de una conversación sin guion
A lighthearted exchange about a recent recorded dialogue on creativity and non-duality, and the unexpected directions conversations can take when plans fall through.
The Awkwardness of Unscripted Conversation
A lighthearted exchange about a recent recorded dialogue on creativity and non-duality, and the unexpected directions conversations can take when plans fall through.
I miss the group, really.
That's nice. We missed you. Nice to see you. A few people already told me they weren't going to make it today, so we'll wait a minute or two.
So she wanted to interview you, is that it?
We talked about doing an interview. She said she would love to interview me, but when the time came, she felt like she wasn't going to have actual questions. She said she already knows my story, and the format felt a bit contrived. So we decided to just have a chat and record it, and if it seemed useful or valuable, we would post it.
What also happened is that she had been expecting other people to ask me questions, but she had just changed her system from a public stream to a private one, and very few people were in the private one. On her previous live stream, she only got one question. So there was some worry that we were just going to end up sitting in silence.
Which is great, but not exactly the goal.
Right, not what we were trying to do. So I proposed we just start chatting and see if it felt valuable to record. And then, unexpectedly, we ended up talking about creativity. As soon as we got on the call, that's where the conversation went. So it was nice.
The recording mishap
It was very unique how the creativity and non-duality and just life all led into each other. That was really cool. Between the two of you, it felt right.
I'm glad. It was a bit awkward, especially because she forgot to set up the Zoom so that it recorded both of us. So the video only shows me the entire time. We joked about it afterward, because I'm full-frame the whole thing and she's basically a disembodied voice.
The defendant is being questioned.
Exactly.