Subtitle: A three-part treatment for a near-universal affliction
Read: Layers 1 and 2 are familiar territory. The coverup-worse-than-the-crime frame and the attention-outward frame already exist in the user's mental operating system.
The centipede poem is the canonical folk-wisdom version of the choking phenomenon: explicit attention to an automated skill destroys the skill. The user's Choking Under Explicit Attention (if not yet canonical, this article is the trigger to create it) is the…
** That maps onto the brain's Dont Be The Source Of Someone Elses Awkwardness (if not canonical, this article is the trigger): the highest-leverage awkwardness move is not being the next person who hands out a lifelong complex. The article's closing is also the…
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