Embrace the pause. By Yvonne Milosevic It’s time to reconsider the so-called awkward silence. While a comfort level with silence varies by culture, the average pause in conversation is just one to two seconds among English speakers. But our urge to rush in and fill every…
By Yvonne Milosevic In a continent crowded with picturesque landscapes, standing out isn’t easy. So when Finland created a marketing campaign in 2010 to boost tourism, it decided to tout a uniquely Finnish cultural trait: silence. (But, since the Finns are also super polite, the…