Dismantling Illusions in Conversations

Research on social anxiety shows that if you go into a conversation with the goal of learning as much about your partner as possible, that that shifts your attention from being focused on your own thoughts and what you know be doing wrong. A lot of the thoughts that normally fuel the laking gap, ikno r, concerns about what people think of us, just aren't there when i'm more focused on the other person. So in conversations, you're actually asking yourself, stav, focus, or the other portions, tay, focused on what's happening in their mind. Let me try and and them a little better.