You're waiting to interrupt.
But listening, really listening, is hard when potential distractions are leaping into your ears every fifty-thousandth of a second — and pathways in your brain are just waiting to interrupt your focus to warn you of any potential dangers.
They listen -- not waiting to interrupt you with a brilliant summation or with, "Oh that reminds me of a time when... .., no.
So many times, instead of truly listening we are just waiting to interrupt with our own thoughts and ideas, which can then turn into a heated argument.
For whatever reason — " "Oh, wait," she interrupted.
Monday night at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, in the first of four performances of Cherubini's "Médée," the audience couldn't wait and interrupted the performance.
Mrs. Lezama-Clark kept one eye on her visitor and the other on the whirl around her. "We have a theme for the parade -- wait," she interrupted herself.
The researchers found that the participants working on smaller devices like the iPod behaved less assertively -- waiting longer to interrupt an experimenter who had made them wait, or not interrupting at all.
This finding is consistent with the overarching hypothesised mechanism of effect, that waiting list allocation interrupts efforts at change, and also points to the importance of consideration of readiness for, or activities towards, change in this regard.
Difficulties with behaving well during class included examples of being reprimanded by teachers for 'blurting things out' or not waiting their turn, and interrupting the class by moving around, fidgeting or dropping things, thus causing a distraction to others.
When a new person talks to you, make sure you really hear what the person is saying instead of interrupting or waiting for your turn to speak; once the person is done talking, respond in a way that shows you've really taken everything the person has said into account.
