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Introduce yourself with a call to action

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I used to really, really struggle with introductions. I used to struggle a lot with self-compression. A simple “where are you coming from?” could get really messy — “well, I spent the last month in Berkeley, but right before this I was in San Diego; I just deposited my belongings in a new SF house; you know that I’m British and really all this is just the latest installment in a prolonged, nine-month trip that’s involved becoming resident—” “The hotel next door, today” (Be Markovian) People introduce themselves in different ways. By their role, what they do, their institutional…

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