A Little Happier: Why Would an Accomplished Juggler Deliberately Drop a Prop?

January 5 · 3 min

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In his speaking, Winston Churchill often deliberately made mistakes. He understood that an imperfect speech would be more persuasive and moving than a perfect speech, and he chose to make his performance better by making it worse.

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