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Want to avoid an invitation? Try the 'soft no'

想要避免邀请吗?试试“温和拒绝”

‘Hold your nerve long enough and you will eventually achieve the soft no.’

‘Hold your nerve long enough and you will eventually achieve the soft no.’

2026-02-04  356  简单
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Then a friend I was wailing to introduced me to the concept of the soft no. It’s a grownup version of the “we’ll see” that our parents used to fob us off with as kids, but more gentle, graceful, less obvious. Sleight of underhand. A trick of the porky pie.

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