I attended a session where someone asked “What do you do when the group is talking about something that you know nothing about?”\u00a0 I know the feeling: with every minute that goes by, your smile gets more frozen, and you feel more like a statue.<\/p>\n
The moderator had a brilliant suggestion: “Ask a question. “I know nothing about that, can you explain x?”\u00a0 And watch the conversation flow around you, instead of past you<\/strong>.\u00a0And as more is explained, more\u00a0questions can come up. \u00a0Congratulations: you just joined in.<\/p>\n So simple. So brilliant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I attended a session where someone asked “What do you do when the group is talking about something that you know nothing about?”\u00a0 I know the feeling: with every minute that goes by, your smile gets more frozen, and you feel more like a statue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1137,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-perform-better"],"yoast_head":"\n