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The author reflected on how his ability to talk had both advantages and disadvantages, leading him to explore the concept of talkaholism and ultimately write this book about it. He discussed the benefits of listening more and how it improved relationships.
I took stock of myself and realized that sort of my ability to talk had helped me in a lot of ways, but it also landed me in trouble.
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The author reflected on how his ability to talk had both advantages and disadvantages, leading him to explore the concept of talkaholism and ultimately write this book about it. He discussed the benefits of listening more and how it improved relationships.
I took stock of myself and realized that sort of my ability to talk had helped me in a lot of ways, but it also landed me in trouble.
And in the early days of the pandemic lockdown, it was sort of taking stock of a couple of bad things and realized it all kind of boiled down to this compulsive talking, this impulse. And I discovered there's a thing called talkaholism.
One is that you have more time to listen. And the biggest thing I probably learned in this whole journey was that it wasn't just about me talking less, it was about me listening more.
But the really big thing was you improve the lives of the people around you. So, for example, with my daughter, I had a sort of rocky relationship with her. And learning how to shut up and just be with her and listen to her really transformed our relationship.
What I found, Scott, though, is that it can be psychological. It actually can be related to things like ADHD or bipolar 2 that creates a compulsion. But there's another guy who did a lot of work.
