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

1236.284 - 1259.935 Alison Wood Brooks

You don't need to feel... bad about it. However, because giving attention to someone else is a signal that they matter and that you care about them, we should work hard to repair these moments of inattentiveness. And so if you notice that your own mind is wandering, you can ask repair questions like, oh, hey, John, I felt like you asked a really good question, but I missed the second half of it.