TALKING IS SELFISH

To me, conversations are arguably the most important thing that I value in my life. And if we are having conversations everyday, it is a muscle that I constantly wish to exercise. Most conversations are not the equal 50% listening and 50% talking. I find that a majority of conversations that I have are 90% listening and 10% talking—and that's not even because I don't have anything to say. I have everything to say, I just feel like I don’t have the opportunities to when I’m talking to people.

Today, I wanted to mainly focus and talk on how well or poorly one can hold conversation without rambling and forgetting that a conversation is a two way street. And how it’s not common for people to be aware that they’re making the entire conversation about themselves and making the other person solely listen.

I came to learn that psychologists h ...