Accept that your boss, teacher, mentor, whoever has a point but rather than seeking to diffuse blame or make awkward excuses, focus on what you can do to improve the situation from this point on.
"Awkward," which focuses on the teenage life of one Jenna Hamilton (Ashley Rickards), who wants nothing more than to fit in at her high school, picked up slightly more than 1.7 million viewers.
The diagnosis may be folded back into autism in the coming Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, but there is no doubt that Asperger's description of these socially awkward, intensely focused young men resonated with parents who recognized their own children in it.
With natural disasters and human conflict gripping the headlines, this might be considered an awkward time to focus on horse racing.
They were achieved through slow shutter speeds, which meant that instead of being the record of a blinked instant, they captured movement through time and mid-air: in one a female figure leans forward, body flexed, awkward, in fizzing focus, while her head shakes frantically, blurrily, as if ridding herself of a wasp.
But the autofocus is slow and chooses awkward times to focus all the way in and out before settling on you, which can be problematic if you're recording a video.
With a smooth, light touch (though not without bumps and awkward moments) it focuses instead on the idea that the present and the people who factor into it are all we really have.
While the conversation might seem awkward, keeping it focused on on the following topics will help to alleviate the awkwardness.
"North Korea is coming at a very awkward moment, with the focus on Iraq".
Still, Mr. Klein's approach brings Man Ray's early work, often seen as awkward and derivative, into focus.
