In Celeste Headlee’s Ted Talk she primarily described all the ways in which we fail to pay attention but rather just try to show it through eye contact or nodding our head. She then takes the time to demonstrate that if you are really paying attention there should be no need to pretend to look as if you are. With this she springs her discussion into the long list of what you can do to better improve your conversational skills. Containing ten tactics one of which stuck with me because i do often see myself struggling with; letting your thoughts flow. What she means is when you’re listening to a story and you remember something pertaining to that you stick on that and then don’t listen to the rest of what they are saying. I find myself doing this frequently which is why I took this and am trying to better myself in this way.
