How to Be Courteous and Be Known as a Good Conversationalist

If you are really wanting to be courteous and be known as a good conversationalist, you are spending a good share of your time listening. And even if you have a thought that you want to interject - we all have them because it's just expressive and natural to just want to talk. But when you have that thought, it's a discipline to hold that thought, let the person finish and then just to remember it.