CLIP: Speaking Spontaneously, Exiting Small Talk, Answers When You Haven’t Got An Answer

136.977 - 157.426 Matt Abrahams

Now, because you've previewed that you're excusing yourself, nobody's surprised. There's less awkwardness. It gives the other person or people a chance to figure out what they're going to do so they're not just left there in a strange way. And it gets us away from the exiting of most awkward conversations that we do, which is through biology. I'm hungry. I'm thirsty. I have to go to the bathroom.