Luke Ford discovers he has Histrionic Personality Disorder aka Narcissistic Personality Disorder. He reflects on how this affected him as he tried to make his way in Orthodox Judaism in Pico-Robertson 90035, making himself a pariah in many of the hood’s finest shuls such as Aish HaTorah, Young Israel of Century City, etc.
I’m learning through my classes that it is more important to emotionally connect with your audience and to have them feel your desire to connect with them than any words you want to say. Often public speakers use the audience as fodder for their ideas. They just have stuff they have to get out and you feel like they have no desire to connect with you and so you tune them out.
