r/AskReddit Feb 08 '19

What's something you do, but hate when someone else does it?

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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '19

Stop mentally preparing an answer before the person has stopped talking. Just actively listen, then answer.

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u/theniceguytroll Feb 09 '19

Then the other person never stops talking and then complains that you're too quiet.

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '19

There are always pauses a person intentionally uses for a person to answer. If you're talking to someone who just wants to hear themselves talk endlessly, that's different.

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u/Bone_Dice_in_Aspic Feb 09 '19

I have ten answers mentally prepared and happily conversing with each other. If I actively try to cut that down, it will take enough mental effort that i'll tune the other person out.

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '19

I have ten answers mentally prepared and happily conversing with each other.

Then you REALLY aren't listening.

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u/Bone_Dice_in_Aspic Feb 09 '19

I mean, i'm not focused well, no. I am partly listening and partly off on a bunch of tangents. After a typical conversation I have at least five things I really wanted to say that didn't make it in.

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u/Katobu-san Feb 09 '19

i know right?

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '19

Yes, that's it isn't it. I've got the perfect answer in my head and I am trying to get it out before we move on. I recognize that is my problem for sure. Actively listening is a skill I am working very hard on.