Verbal and visual cues are the key. If someone is droning on and on and I'm no longer interested and want to change the subject or leave the conversation, I find myself no longer making eye contact, looking around for exits, my responses will no longer include questions or additions to the conversation but will be more along the lines of "uh-huh", and "yeah."
I have a team member at work who does this. He'll talk about everything for two hours if I just stand there. It's awkward. But I just say, "Hey, I gotta go to heads" or something like that, to break the conversation.
I think the key is to realize that conversations do not need a formal 'ending' to just be over.
I have a team member at work who does this. He'll talk about everything for two hours if I just stand there. It's awkward. But I just say, "Hey, I gotta go to heads" or something like that, to break the conversation.
I think the key is to realize that conversations do not need a formal 'ending' to just be over.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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