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344 | Communication Problems

The Minimalists

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Are You Looking Away When You're Looking at Someone?

If we're making eye contact, we're producing oxytosen and so our bodies focus on connection. If i ask you a hard, intellectual question, your brain goes, stop connecting and try to think of the answer. When someone is not listening to you in they are probably trying to process some answer they're coming up with. That's o mak sense youo i do i look away? Like right now, i'm looking away when i'm trying to let gather a thought. Yes, if i'm looking at some one's cues, it distracts from another train of thought that i have. So i often, like when i' have something to say, i'm not

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