Unstick those elbows and gesture openly, and use your hands to enumerate and emphasize.

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Go ahead and use your hands to toss the salad, massaging the rich dressing into the vegetables to coat every last crunchy bite.

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"You can use your hands and body, and trust other people to understand you, but it's really exhausting not to have the full dictionary, " he says.

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Instead, just forget about your hands and use them the way you normally do.

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You might find a better use for the extra time on your hands.

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Cord Jefferson surprised me by writing an anti-soap screed, since he recently wrote an evidence-based explanation of why you should wash your hands every time you use the bathroom.

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Wash your hands often with soap and water to get rid of germs, and use hand sanitizer when a sink is not available.

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