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How to deal with distractions and unexpected visitors

How to deal with distractions and unexpected visitors

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How to deal with distractions and unexpected visitors

- [Instructor] When we're working in our home office we have two types of distractions to deal with, the physical distractions, people, pets, things like that, and then the audio distractions. A lot of times those are happening outside the room, and we don't have any control over those. Fortunately, this one here, we do have some control over and that is my cat, Dibs, and she was a rescue and I've had her for years and years and years. She's a good cat and she lives here at the studio. (laughing) She's really terrific. But sometimes in the middle of a call, she decides that she wants to be part of it, even if it's just her tail jumping in during the call itself. So in those sorts of things, I just sort of go with it. I mean, rarely am I on such a serious call where it would be the end of the world if my cat jumped up on the table and, you know, got her tail in front of the camera. So that's usually for me a situation…

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