Pierre
Why the abrupt and unwarranted interest in having lunch with me? Why start the conversation with “Got a minute?” Why not simply say: “Can I talk to you?” Or better yet, simply save everyone time and announce what it is you are really interested in from the beginning?
Well, I think it is human nature, you know? By resorting to cliche, we rely on the comfortable and the familiar in a situation that creates nervousness. Thereby, we avoid embarrassing stutters and stammers as we search for new words in an emotionally nerve-racking situation.
Intriguing. Emotion creates physical interference in brain activity, so ingrained phrases circumvent mental static, as it were. And yet your mental static did nothing to interefere with the thought process you just explained to me.
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