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THEHUMAN DIARYThere is a word for what you felt.
Shame

n.Overestimating how much anyone else noticed.

Gilovich, Medvec and Savitsky, 2000Established psychological concept

Nobody Saw

The presentation was on a Thursday and Ife said "the fourth quarter" when she meant "the third," and corrected herself within two seconds, and then thought about it for four years.

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The correction was clean. She has watched the recording. She has watched the recording, at various points, approximately thirty times, in a spirit of gathering evidence against herself.

What is on the recording: a woman says "in the fourth — sorry, third quarter" and continues.

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