Blake had a coaching client who was hyperliteral; when Blake explained with visual circles how 'how are you?' in a diner at 3am is contextually different from 'how are you?' in a formal business meeting, the client understood and shifted—suggesting literalness is learnable, not immutable.

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Blake

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he walks in and he goes Blake how are and introduces everyone hey how are you how are you how are you and everybody starts hysterical laughing... on our session later I was explaining to him like this is why the context was different... and I'm drawing Circles of all the layers of context in that Dynamic and he's like okay I I understand it now

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The Non-Verbal Expert: These Behaviors Tell You Everything You Need to Know About SomeoneThe Knowledge Project Podcast
Created: 8/10/2026, 11:33:31 PM

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