Make a habit of speaking louder than usual. Inhibited people are notoriously soft-spoken. Raise the volume of your voice. You don’t have to shout at people and use an angry tone—just consciously practice speaking louder than usual. Loud talk in itself is a powerful disinhibitor. Recent experiments have shown that you can exert up to 15 per cent more strength, and lift more weight, if you will shout, grunt or groan loudly as you make the lift. The explanation of this is that loud shouting disinhibits—and allows you to exert all your strength, including that which has been blocked off and tied
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