I have said this before, I will say it again: practice saying, in a tone of scoffing, "Dude, really?", "Seriously?", "Are you serious?" and the like. Practice so you can say it when you don't know what else to say, when you're not ready to say anything.https://twitter.com/apocalynds/status/1275440786109132800 …
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People sometimes laugh at the idea of practicing saying "what", literally "what", just flat what... but I think we all of us in our lifetime have had the horrible experience of the moment that stretches on forever while we know something must be said but can't figure out what.
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The flat "what" is a great thing to break the silence and find your voice because if you find that you have more to say than you thought it can turn into a complete sentence. And if you don't, you've still broken the silence.
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Yes! I am terrible at it!
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There have been times when I’ve been so gobsmacked by the sheer wrongness of what someone was saying that I had no comeback at all.
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I've been in situations where the sheer bizarre fractal wrongness of what someone just said left me speechless. Just sitting there opening & closing my mouth like a fish.
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