Apologies are for when you’ve genuinely wronged someone. And when you do, please apologize loudly. But don’t follow the compulsion to apologize for sharing your perspective. It’s part of your job as a pro to do so, and apologizing for it means that you are devaluing yourself, the person listening to you, the person who hired you, and the very space

“I want to follow up on the conversation we had last week to see if I hurt your feelings when I was processing my feelings about extroverts.”

“Is there anything I could do or stop doing that would make it easier to work with me?”