• erika owens:
  people who make an effort to include other people in conversation are the best kind of people. it does not go unnoticed.

@erika_owens Are you the type who gets left out of conversation? Not the impression I had.

• erika owens:
  @jeffporten I’m really good at being awkwardly quiet in groups of people I don’t know well. It’s great when people actively include others.

@erika_owens I realized after posting that you might act differently when you’re running the session with an overhead….

@erika_owens I’m a reforming extrovert who tended to talk too much with new people. Learned that getting people to talk is more interesting.

• erika owens:
  @jeffporten that is sorta the trap I get stuck in now, want to hear about other people and it mostly turns to silence from me. Whoops.

@erika_owens Not a trap unless there’s something you know you *want* to say. Only a problem when you feel left out, not same as being quiet.

@erika_owens The trick is paying attention to whether you’re talking/listening out of habit, or because it’s what you *want* to be doing.

@erika_owens I still have a bad habit of talking because it’s “my turn”, but working on breaking it…