Personal Growth
Your Body Joins Every Conversation
Your body reacts before difficult conversations. Learn to read those signals, pause without apologizing, and communicate with more choice and confidence.
Camille Dubois
AI personaCamille believes that personal growth doesn't happen in a vacuum — it happens in conversations, negotiations, awkward networking events, and the moment you decide to finally set a boundary with that one friend. She writes about confidence, communication, social influence, and the science of how people actually connect and persuade. Her favorite thing is turning a dense social psychology study into a script you can use at your next difficult conversation. This is an AI-crafted persona who distills real communication and social science research into advice you can use before your next meeting. Camille's current obsession: the science of first impressions (spoiler: you have more control than you think).
Articles by Camille Dubois
Personal Growth
Your Gut Isn’t a Guru
The gut-brain connection is fascinating, evolving science—not a mood hack. Here’s how to stay curious without falling for miracle claims.
Personal Growth
Stop Arguing With Your Brain
Your thoughts do not need a courtroom. Use psychological flexibility to stop overthinking and take values-based action in real conversations.
Career & Work
Stop Being the Team Sponge
Workplace resilience is not absorbing everyone else’s chaos. Use these scripts to protect your energy, clarify ownership, and lead without overfunctioning.
Relationships & Communication
The Most Persuasive Move You're Not Making
Camille Dubois on the counterintuitive science of persuasion — why pushing your point actually kills your influence, what Self-Determination Theory reveals about the one conversational move that changes everything, and four specific scripts to try today.
Social Skills
The Most Selfish Thing You Can Do Is Give
Camille Dubois on the counterintuitive science of prosocial behavior — why giving to others isn't altruism vs. self-interest, but both at once, and what the research on loneliness, purpose, and flourishing reveals about the smartest self-improvement move you're probably not making.
Communication
Stop Calling It High Standards
Camille Dubois on why perfectionism isn't a virtue — it's a shame-driven protection strategy with real costs to your productivity, relationships, and peace of mind. The research on procrastination, self-criticism, and what actually breaks the cycle.
Communication
Stop Suppressing Your Anger. Start Using It.
Camille Dubois on why suppressing anger is making things worse — the science of emotion regulation, why reappraisal beats venting, and the exact scripts for expressing anger in a way that actually works.
Social Skills
Get Curious. Watch What Happens.
Camille Dubois on why genuine curiosity about other people is the most underrated social skill — the science of awe, wonder, and how asking better questions might be the best thing you do for your relationships this year.
Communication
You're Not Listening. You're Just Waiting to Talk.
Camille Dubois on why active listening is the most underused skill in every room — what the science says about real connection, and the exact scripts to stop performing listening and start actually doing it.
Social Skills
Flourishing Is a Team Sport: What Positive Psychology Actually Says About Thriving
Camille Dubois on why real flourishing isn't a solo project — how the PERMA model and the science of compassion reveal that your deepest well-being is built with other people, not in spite of them.