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Why Do People Tend to React Than the Understand the Conversation
at 28:28
Answer
The physiological process of information that goes to your brain is focused on either what you’re hearing or how you will respond next in the conversation. You have to consciously make yourself refocus on the conversation if you start to drift from it.
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