Alison Wood Brooks on How to Make Every Conversation Matter | EP 563

1213.675 - 1236.144 Alison Wood Brooks

And so we should know that about ourselves. I think there is often this assumption that we are continuously and always hanging on the word of every other person in the world. That's just really hard to achieve. And in our studies of people listening to each other in conversation, we found that people's minds are actually wandering more than 25% of the time during conversation. And that's normal.