Stop Replying to Questions With “That’s a Great Question”
You probably think you’re doing the right thing. You’re not.
In my life outside of tossing word salad on this platform, I am often interviewed about my research and it stresses me the hell out. You might think it’s easy to answer questions about your own data baby, but it is absolutely not. Just because you brought something into this world, it doesn’t mean that you remember every detail about it. Go ahead and ask your average new parent if they remember every detail of their child’s life so far and they will likely launch a diaper bag at your head. The only difference between me and a new parent is that I have to sound somewhat intelligent while directing the question-asker toward the bridge that they can fuck right off of.
I don’t tell people to fuck off.
Unfortunately, I have noticed an equally vulgar language tick develop when I speak to people. It seemed innocuous at first, like a little soft spot of language Nerf to land on when I needed it. Research shows that the brain doesn’t actually multitask, it task-switches, but I can promise you that I was able to both spleen out with anxiety and desperately clutch for a cogent argument at the same time. And then it happened.
