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When professional personas become permanent

I teach elementary school and I realized I use the same voice and energy with adults that I do with six-year-olds and I do not know how to turn it off.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The skills required for specific contexts can become so automatic that they prevent us from accessing different modes of being appropriate to other relationships.

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