The other day, I had one of those “dreaded conversations.” Ya know, the type that you know you should have but do everything in your being to deflect and avoid? In these situations, I hem and haw until eventually gaining the courage or more likely getting trapped in a corner.
And then the conversation starts and boy, here comes the discomfort. In this last one I even uttered out loud, “Wow, this is awkward.” How awkward. But as my good friend Banks once said regarding awkwardness, “Keep going.”
So we kept going and we reached a place where both of us admitted to feeling more comfortable with each other than we had ever previously felt together.
Banks says that at the other side of awkwardness is connection. He’s right.
Watch Banks say it better than I ever could: