Have you ever heard yourself saying the wrong thing to the wrong person? and you knew it wasn’t cool to keep talking? but you did it anyway?
I do that a lot. I learned it from my father, who learned it from his no doubt and so on…
Men don’t really get called out on this in one on one conversations. We tend to keep marching forward like a conversational bulldozer, even if we do get called out. So next time you’re in that situation, and you recognize you’re full of crap stop yourself and admit it. To quote Mark Twain, “Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.”