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Whenever awkwardness strikes, you immediately look down at your phone, pretending to handle something important, perfectly using the screen as a shield to let time pass. This instinctive reaction of "using distraction to escape the present" actually masks your extreme resistance to "head-on dealing with social conflicts and negative emotions"; you fear that once you look up, you will have to bear the burden of repairing the relationship or facing others' awkward expressions, so you use the "virtual world in your phone" to create an absolutely safe protective shield for yourself. But always escaping makes you lose the chance to build social resilience and gives an illusion of coldness. Try forcing yourself to keep the phone in your pocket the next time you feel an awkward atmosphere, and give a friendly, helpless smile to the person next to you; when you learn to look directly at awkwardness, you'll find it's not that scary.
💡 Did you know?
Quickly recovering from awkwardness is called 'social resilience' — this ability can be significantly improved through deliberate practice.
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