#51 Celeste Headlee: The Dying Art of Conversation
The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish
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Talk About Yourself
We default to the subject that we're most comfortable with, and that's ourselves. Talking about yourself activates the same pleasure centre in the brain as sex and heroine. If you spent ten minutes talking about yourself, you'd feel really good at the end of ten minutes. But the problem, of course, is s that that's not shared. The other person doesn't feel that you're the one getting the dope or a mean shot. They don't want to seem like they're picking on someone who just lost their husband. Andi says: 'It feels like your being kind'
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