Lessons From Conversational Experts

According to Simon Jenkins from the Guardian, experts advise:

• Never to converse with too many because in much company, few listen
• Be brief to avert tedium and interruption
• Avoid anecdote; refer to others but not oneself
• Be eager to listen and ready to change one’s mind
• This discipline, the subjugation of anger to social ritual, is key to the exhilarating, serendipitous, controlled anarchy that is good conversation.