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Jul 2022
10m 29s

Things Extroverts Need To Stop Doing

Anung of Courageous Creativity
About this episode

This is not about hating on extroverts. We love them because they are people we love; friends, family, and co-workers. But there are some things they do, that they think are perfectly fine to do, which are not. Sometimes it’s outright rude and they don’t know. This may be just something for yourself to keep an eye out so you can bring it up yourself. Or just send this to the extrovert in your life and I can tell them.

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