How to Extract Yourself From a Conversation

If you're terrified of actually engaging with that person or if the sense of intimidation is too strong, there's an internal process to follow. Pick one thing and ask yourself, okay, so this person was articulate. What can I do to be more articulate? Maybe I should practice my presentations for 15 minutes before I give them. Don't worry about the thousand things your mind may tell you, oh, there's no way you can ever get there because there's so many things that are different. The really cool thing is instead of just being down by this intimidation or treating it as a bad thing, we're actually improving in some small way. We're now going to see the cycle reverse