Overexcitable

I had a real surprise today when I listened to a voicemail I had left myself reminding me to do something. (Does anyone else do this?! It's one of my top tips for keeping all the things I'm juggling on track.) Anyway, when I was leaving the message, at one point I took a huge pause as I was thinking about something else and changing track to a different emotional level. I did this deliberately to make a specific point to myself when I heard it again.

When I picked up the message later, I listened for the pause....and there wasn't one! No noticeable difference in tempo. I am *amazed*. I had no idea that there might be such a huge difference between my experience of speech and the actual sound of what I say.

Now that I know, what to do? How many conversations have been warped by this? Hundreds? Thousands? Am I not leaving any space for other people to follow me when I change track? This is wild. I want to think about it for a few days, then start experimenting! Watch this space.

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