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The Interesting Science of Conversation & How to Handle Deadlines with Ease

Something You Should Know

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The Importance of a Silence in an Interaction

Some people are really good at holding the floor by never coming to the end of a phrase. A strategy for dealing with this is let the first big package of stuff come out, and then perhaps just delay your response so just for a couple of seconds. Men talk differently to men than they do to women, and women talk differently to women than they did to men. But when you look at something like a request, people don't make requests differently according to gender. They make it differently according to whether they say things like, i need, i want. I was just wondering if would it be possible to and there are different ways of making requests but they don't really fall out along gender

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