We're not even trying to be awkward and it's happening anyway. This week Conscious Citizen Kelly Byrne and Host Kristen McAdams figure out how to have a sense of humor about being awkward and how it relates to navigating the upcoming post-pandemic social angst.
Threshold ( 7 mins in): Embracing awkwardness and even seeking it out. Diffusing tension with comedy. Social anxiety in post pandemic life.
“Sometimes discomfort is the only way through”. Awkwardness arising in all things. A challenge for yourself. Tame your seriousness.
Recap ( 25 mins in): Eligible comedians start your engines! Kelly is looking to get some action! Don’t make it awkward though. Find out what's happening in the ATX Comedy Scene.
Approach ( 28:30 mins in): We take ourselves so seriously and it’s so hard to live life that way. Extremely specific research articles. Awkward scenarios. Keeping it awkward instead of keeping it weird. Therapeutic skills/Comedy skills/Negotiation skills. Satisfaction without purpose. Does laughter have emotion?
Road Back ( 45 mins in): There’s a lot of good things that come from awkwardness. Ways to manage and understand your own awkwardness.
Web Articles and Research:
https://youtu.be/BN3KT7IERSw
https://www.healthline.com/health/socially-awkward
https://www.wikihow.com/Overcome-Awkwardness
https://www.wikihow.com/Avoid-Being-Socially-Awkward
https://www.verywellmind.com/tips-to-cope-with-awkward-conversations-3024859
https://www.succeedsocially.com/awkwardbenefits
https://socialpronow.com/blog/socially-awkward/
Duncan, P. (2017). Joke work: comic labor and the aesthetics of the awkward. Comedy Studies, 8(1), 36-56.
Reeser, T. W. (2017). Producing awkwardness: Affective labour and masculinity in popular culture. Mosaic: an interdisciplinary critical journal, 50(4), 51-68.
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