Just change your ratio of these three kinds of statements - it works like magic

- "All he ever talks about is himself—what he's doing, what he's interested in, what his ideas are."
- “She constantly lectures me. She never asks what I think.”
- "There's no disagreeing with him. I just let him expound, and then I just try to change the subject."
- “She has an opinion about everything, and she’ll give it to you—whether you ask for it or not.”

The secret to being a good conversationalist - one whom people enjoy talking with, and whose company they seek - is very simple: It's talking with them, not to them or at them.

What infant memory studies tells us about the bilingual advantage

Like any other area of research, the study of bilingualism is a difficult enterprise, and one of the greatest pleasures of academic life is to read papers whose authors are unafraid to acknowledge the contradictions in their own findings and to raise questions, instead of providing answers.