Talkative coworker, how do you deal with him and achieve your required productivity with his presence?

Milan Kundera says in his book Laughter and Forgetting:

"A person's life between one's sex is nothing but a battle to seize the ears of others."

Gossip is a devastating human scourge. We are either chatterers or victims of gossip! Either we try to seize the ears of others, or we voluntarily leave ourselves for others to seize our ears! But if the speaker and the listener want to talk, then there is no problem.

The problem I'm specifically addressing today is the chatty coworker. A machine that does not stop talking next to us in the same workplace and does not stop wasting speech, and if we ask him to stop talking, what are only a few moments we enjoy calm before he starts talking again!

If we give our ears to him, we will only experience a headache, a distraction in focus, and a lack of productivity, and we may be late to the required tasks!

What is the way to get rid of this dilemma?

Experts say polite escape from conversation is a solution. It is to be smart in order to stop the chattering coworker from speaking, as we say to him: "I like this interesting conversation, but let's complete it at another time, I have tasks to deliver."

Direct confrontation!
Others are proposing a policy of direct confrontation, which is to explicitly ask him to stop talking and that we are not interested in discussing. This method works best in serious work environments, where it makes sense to repel a coworker.

And you, dear reader, have you ever been plagued by a talkative business friend?

How did you go about stopping his unimportant chatter and focusing on your work?