As an extroverted person? Play some online games with the mic on and talk to your team. They’ll tell you to shut up constantly, :D
Seriously though, if you get your energy from meeting people like I do. It’s important to be self-reflective more and do hobbies that are calming. I can draw for hours and it’s amazing or even calligraphy! I’ve been doing crochet as well now. I just lose hours and it’s a nice mindfulness exercise.
If you’re concerned about talking too much then I would say just practice listening more. I wouldn’t say I interrupt someone when they’re talking but I do interrupt the flow sometimes because I can carry silence a lot. Which is kinda why people like having me around (convos don’t get boring) … however, I used to definitely go too far with it. So, it’s good to sit back and let conversations and quietness play out and you can see how others would have carried the convo without you. I remember reading about Sir Patrick Stewart about it:
Patrick Stewart has said that playing Jean-Luc Picard changed him as a person. “…I suppose [he] even had some influence on me. I became a better listener than I ever had been as a result of playing Jean-Luc Picard because it was one of the things that he does terrifically well.”
I knew I was killing conversations when I hung out with ANOTHER outgoing person and they kept doing what I was doing to a higher degree and I was like, “it’s kinda nice having someone carry conversations like this … at the same time, it’s kinda draining because I can’t get a word in”.
As an extroverted person? Play some online games with the mic on and talk to your team. They’ll tell you to shut up constantly, :D
Seriously though, if you get your energy from meeting people like I do. It’s important to be self-reflective more and do hobbies that are calming. I can draw for hours and it’s amazing or even calligraphy! I’ve been doing crochet as well now. I just lose hours and it’s a nice mindfulness exercise.
If you’re concerned about talking too much then I would say just practice listening more. I wouldn’t say I interrupt someone when they’re talking but I do interrupt the flow sometimes because I can carry silence a lot. Which is kinda why people like having me around (convos don’t get boring) … however, I used to definitely go too far with it. So, it’s good to sit back and let conversations and quietness play out and you can see how others would have carried the convo without you. I remember reading about Sir Patrick Stewart about it:
I knew I was killing conversations when I hung out with ANOTHER outgoing person and they kept doing what I was doing to a higher degree and I was like, “it’s kinda nice having someone carry conversations like this … at the same time, it’s kinda draining because I can’t get a word in”.