Oddbean

I do not think your voice is boring and I highly suspect this is the very common phenomenon where everyone hears their own voice differently than others do. For instance, I was doing the podcast for over a year before I didn’t hate listening to myself. I didn’t even review my own episodes before publishing. Now it doesn’t bother me, but I’m 5+ years in now of doing it every day 😆 But that said, it isn’t as easy as it seems from the outside. It’s very often a pain in the ass and takes a huge amount of time.

Listening to your voice is one thing, but the subtle differences of you speaking while having a live conversation or being interviewed is entirely different than dictating written text and making it sound convincing and engaging. It takes a special skill to bring something written/static to life, which you’ve clearly honed over time and executed well. Lyn’s ability to understand concepts so deeply that she can think on her feet and open the spigot, delivering on the fly verbal responses and arguments is amazing, but an entirely different skill set. Kudos to you both.