Daily bread 07/04/2025

• What’s so awkward about an awkward silence? | Aeon Essays

  • the sort of silences that leave most people writhing
  • the unnerving habit of thinking before he spoke
  • someone who made such an ‘unnerving’ use of silence
  • Chinese negotiators are trained to draw out silences in order to provoke their writhing Western counterparts into making concessions.
  • Chinese negotiators are trained to draw out silences in order to provoke their writhing Western counterparts into making concessions.
  • Silence, as the saying goes, speaks volumes.
  • In many (or even most) cases, we would rather quietly endure the norm-violating behaviour than create awkwardness by challenging it.

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