> I've been called "cold" in professional settings. Talking a lot and saying nothing will make you insufferable. Better cold than insufferable. You could lear

> I've been called "cold" in professional settings. Talking a lot and saying nothing will make you insufferable. Better cold than insufferable. You could learn to say some simple “grease the wheel” type of expressions. But that is going to cone across as feigned. People prefer genuine, so perhaps you could just try and be polite and turn the cold into warm.