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You are going to love today's real story because it's about your favorite topic.

You. Now, I'm not saying that to insult you. I'm not saying that to be a smart aleck.

I'm saying it because research shows that generally speaking, our favorite topic, yours, mine, everybody, is ourselves.

That's true of you, me, everybody we know.

So here's an experiment to try, and I think you'll really enjoy this.

Next time you're in a group of people, pay attention to what each of them talks about the most.

If you're relating a story, they usually won't respond to what you're saying with a follow-up

question.

They won't say, oh, really?

Tell me more about that.

They will respond by relating a similar story about themselves. So you might

be saying, oh my gosh, we were at the airport and got stuck for two hours on the airplane and we

couldn't get back to the terminal to get off. And their response will be, oh my gosh, last summer,

we, and they'll start telling you a story about themselves.

And if you ever start listening to that, it's a bunch of people talking about themselves.

They don't really dial in to what's being said to them.

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