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Old 09-26-2008, 10:42 AM   #5
Flint
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Dystopia
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Imagine that you're going for a job interview and you handled questions like this; just being human. In certain situations, being polished means you have done your homework and are prepared, with the information you need to do the job.

Myself, I like to cultivate a casual conversationalism, but it's peppered with white-hot information nuggets, which, if you know enough to catch on, reveal that I very deeply know what I'm talking about.

Being unpolished is nice--if you are, simultaneously, casually confident with some actual, useful information.
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