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LESSON 5 · Small Talk Mastery

PAUSE TO THINK

How well do people guess when their conversation partner wants to stop?

Off by roughly half the conversation

Harvard researchers found people often misjudge how long their partner wants to keep talking by about half the conversation. Because exit cues are hard to read, a planned close can feel kinder than guessing.

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