Hi everyone. I am hoping for some tips to just kind of not talk as much? When I was a lot younger (like, childhood) I definitely had a bad habit of interrupting people which is not a huge issue now. I've over time learned also how to shorten my thoughts outloud talking to people, and also to not over-explain somewhat complicated things to others (I sell eyeglasses, for context.)
The thing is, I get interrupted all the time by everyone. Literally, everyone interrupts me. I'm trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong. It's especially annoying when someone asks me a question and when I'm answering it the interruption is quite literally a few words into my sentence. I've tried to sound more confident. I've tried to just use as few words as possible. I'm writing this worried that this is too much.
I've gotten really good at being able to sit and listen when someone is talking and mostly just nod or kind of quietly go "yeah" to show I'm listening, really good at having the impulse control to have a thought to interject with and then let it go. When I'm mid-sentence in a conversation and then someone interjects with a thought, I just stop completely and sometimes forget what I was saying.
Searching for answers is turning up that I just talk too much, but what is dominating a conversation? Is it taking about four minutes to summarize a work event at the end of the day? Like, legitimately I'm asking what is too long before it becomes a problem.