| Personally, I think… | For example… | Looking back… |
| In my opinion… | I remember when… | In hindsight… |
| From my perspective… | In my previous job… | That experience taught me… |
| To some extent, I agree that… | I once had a situation where… | Since then… |
| I strongly believe that… | One good example of this is… | It made me realise that… |
| I can understand why people think that, but… | At my company… | That’s why now I… |
| I’ve noticed that… | I experienced this myself when… | If I think about it now… |
| Generally speaking… | A few years ago… | I learned that… |
| I tend to think that… | One thing that happened to me was… | It changed the way I think about… |
| I would say that… | I saw this happen with one of my colleagues… | It gave me a different perspective on… |
| I’m not completely sure, but I feel that… | Recently… | After that, I started to… |
| I think there’s some truth in that because… | There was a time when… | It helped me understand that… |
| I can see both sides, however… | This reminds me of a situation where… | Now I see it differently because… |
| I used to think differently, but now… | Something similar happened to me… | It showed me how important it is to… |
| I think this depends on the person/situation because… | One of the best examples I can think of is… | If I could go back, I would… |
| I’ve realised over time that… | I dealt with this quite recently… | It probably made me more… |
| I completely disagree with that because… | My manager once told me… | It changed my attitude towards… |
| I partly agree with that statement… | I had a conversation about this recently… | It made me more aware of… |
| There’s definitely some truth in that… | I can relate to this because… | I don’t think I understood this before… |
| I think people often underestimate… | In one project I worked on… | Now I pay more attention to… |