Podcasts are tremendous The best ones make it a delight to listen A skill many of us are lacking in Stop listening to yourself talk and you just might learn something You take a beat You take it in You become real and discard nonsense and phonies Realize when you are challenged When you ***** up When you should apologize and learn from it It is not what you say but how you say it Self-editing is a great gift It lends itself to many things and roads Writers understand this