Awkward Conversations Are Lack Of Skill

The lack of courage to have awkward conversations keeps you from strengthening your conversational skills. The lack of skill in handling awkward situations keeps you perpetually scared and avoidant. Some people dodge difficult conversations like a contagious disease. They flee from it. They grow anxious. They panic. They get the jitteriness. They would endure all of this rather than muster the courage to confront. They lack courage because they are not skilled at it. They are not skilled because they haven't practiced it. They haven't practiced because they were either never told to, or never had to. Someone who never had to confront awkward situations never learns how to face them. Someone who never had to navigate difficult conversations — not even with themselves — never develops the skill to have them. Parents are sometimes to blame. They keep their children from developing these skills. They complete their children's sentences, imposing their own thoughts in place of a developing…