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So in working around the world,
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many of the things that I've seen is the same thirst and the same hunger
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for knowledge,
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but how you teach it may vary a bit country to country.
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For example,
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there are some countries where I can use self -deprecating humor and
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I can tell about a mistake that I've made or I can tell about
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something that I did wrong.
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And I use that as a teaching tool because we know that when we
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make mistakes,
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we remember it more than when we do it right.
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So I'm a great one for talking about things that I've made mistakes on.
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But in certain cultures,
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if I do that,
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I'm seen as lesser.
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Like, you're the expert and so you shouldn't be making mistakes.
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When I'm training or when I'm teaching,
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I'll say,
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you can call me whatever you'd like to call me.
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You can call me Nina.
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You can call me Professor Meierding.
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You can call me Mrs.
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Meierding.
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It's up to you.
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And that makes some people very uncomfortable.
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I'll have some people go,
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oh, we'll call you Nina.
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And those people oftentimes are people who are my age and are from
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both sides of the country.
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If I go into the Deep South and I say,
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you can call me Nina,
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and they're younger than I am,
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They feel extraordinarily uncomfortable doing that.
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And so part of it is a connection as
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far as something as simple as your name.
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The other thing that's different is that I
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am what is called a cross talker,
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which means overlapping speech.
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And what that means is if you're talking about something really exciting,
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I might overlap that.
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And I might say, oh,
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that sounds terrific.
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Oh, that sounds fantastic.
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In some cultures,
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that
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because of my power distance of being the instructor or the trainer.
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If I overlap someone's speech,
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not to interrupt them,
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not for the purpose of stopping them talking,
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but just I'm excited about what they're saying and so then they'll stop.
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They will stop for the duration because they're figuring if
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I have something to say,
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then they should not be talking.
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And so the very motivation I have to encourage them and
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my excitement in what they're talking about.
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actually stops them from speaking.
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And so as someone who's a natural overlapping crosstalker,
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when I go to cultures where crosstalking is not as common or it's not
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polite,
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I'm having to do a lot of self -monitoring because
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it's not my natural style of speech.

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