You don’t notice the faces around you
A good clue that you’re monopolizing the conversation and being insensitive to your friend’s thoughts and feelings is if they start to look bored, uninterested, uneasy, or try to change the subject. ‘A speaker who is insensitive doesn’t recognize those signals, they just keep going and aren’t focused at all on the person they’re talking to,’ says Gurr. Look your friend in the eye while you’re talking and try to remain aware and in the moment instead of zoning out.
