It surely happened to you – you entered a room with a dilemma, and the first thing you say is, after a “Hello!”, “How can we solve the dilemma?”.
While this might appear a fine in solving the issue, it might actually be a wrong step.
What I suggest instead is to take a while.
Enter the room, ask a silly introductory question (about the weather, for example), do some small chat, take a sip of water, and only afterwards confrunt the elephant in the room.
Don’t rush it in, don’t jump right to the conclusion, don’t force things into solving hastly.
While it might appear that you’re losing precious time if you don’t go ahead and jump to the conclusion, you might actually be losing a step in the right direction for solving the problem.
So, don’t stand and solve the issue, sit, drink some tea, get into the amtosphere, and only then solve the issue.
While I might be wrong, I associate Turkish people with this kind of approach. And I applaud it!
