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   "claim": "We choose topics every time we talk, not just at the start of a conversation, which means everyone has power to nudge a conversation.",
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   "quote": "we're choosing topics every time we talk. It's not just at the beginning of a conversation, like an opener.",
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   "holder": "Alison Wood Brooks",
   "claim": "Preparing a few topics for even 10-30 seconds before a conversation is an incredibly powerful, low-effort strategy.",
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   "quote": "It's just an incredibly powerful strategy, and it doesn't need to be complicated.",
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   "holder": "Alison Wood Brooks",
   "claim": "Achieving more of your conversational goals — especially pro-social, high-relational ones — makes you seem more competent and warm, and thus more likeable.",
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   "quote": "if you can achieve more of your goals, whether they're high informational, low informational, high relational, low relational, all of that makes you more likeable.",
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   "holder": "Alison Wood Brooks",
   "claim": "You should not avoid small talk; it is an important social ritual for strangers and people reconnecting.",
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   "quote": "we don't need to avoid small talk. In fact, it's a very important social ritual",
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   "claim": "The mistake most people make is staying in small talk too long; you should move up the topic pyramid toward medium and deep talk more quickly.",
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   "quote": "The mistake that people make is they stay there too long, way too long",
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   "holder": "Alison Wood Brooks",
   "claim": "For most people, the single most impactful way to make their conversations better is to ask many more questions.",
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   "quote": "the top line advice to make their conversations better is to ask many more questions.",
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   "holder": "Alison Wood Brooks",
   "claim": "Our brains are wired to be egocentric, which constantly tugs us away from being interested in the other person and is an enemy of good conversation.",
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   "timestamp": "19:53",
   "quote": "it's such an enemy of good conversation because it constantly tugs you away from being interested in the other person first.",
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   "quote": "conversation is a skill that matters profoundly, not in a sort of soft skill fuzzy way, but in a quantifiable way that impacts everything that matters to them.",
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   "holder": "Alison Wood Brooks",
   "claim": "The tiny choices we make in language, though a very gradient concept, have a real impact on how interactions go.",
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   "timestamp": "25:08",
   "quote": "So the tiny choices we make in our language, and the language of respect varies along like hundreds of features of language, and it's a very gradient concept, but they have a real impact on how these interactions go.",
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   "holder": "Steven Bartlett",
   "claim": "The days he is least likely to be kind are the days he has not slept, so emotional and physical state shapes conversational ability.",
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   "quote": "the days where I'm least likely to be kind are the days where I haven't slept.",
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   "holder": "Alison Wood Brooks",
   "claim": "Conversation is remarkably effortful and energy-hungry, so even people who know how to be good conversationalists often lack the energy to do it.",
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   "quote": "conversation is remarkably effortful. And it requires quite a bit of energy.",
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   "holder": "Alison Wood Brooks",
   "claim": "Recognizing that you are at low energy (a 'two out of 10') and being able to voice it requires real self-awareness and reciprocal grace, which is what good relationships are built on.",
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   "quote": "The more common enemy of conversation is actually boredom and disengagement.",
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   "holder": "Alison Wood Brooks",
   "claim": "Good conversation requires mutual engagement; if people are bored and disengaged, none of the other goals (persuasion, decisions, connecting) can be achieved.",
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   "holder": "Alison Wood Brooks",
   "claim": "Because there is no right moment to end a conversation, it is better to end it assertively than to hem and haw, and the final beat is a great time for a callback.",
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   "timestamp": "31:33",
   "quote": "it's better to just end it, like be assertive, walk away, rather than hemming and hawing and feeling bad and embarrassed about it.",
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   "statement": "In Brooks's research, randomly assigning people to prep topics beforehand made their conversations feel less anxious and smoother, with fewer disfluencies (ums, uhs, stutters) and more topics covered.",
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   "timestamp": "5:36",
   "quote": "the conversations where people have thought ahead even for 30 seconds, they feel less anxious, they're much smoother, there are fewer disfluencies, so ums, uhs, stutters between topics.",
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   "statement": "The human mind wanders about 25% of the time during conversation.",
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   "timestamp": "29:21",
   "quote": "The human mind wanders 25% of the time during conversation.",
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