Brené Brown
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
For introverts specifically, the literature suggests the discomfort that drives early exit is not a social deficit.
It surfaces a coordination signal the other person was likely also feeling but suppressing.
Do you want me to read it again?
I think that's true.
I like, in this research, Mastroianni?
Is that how we're pronouncing it?
Mastroianni.
Okay.
The authors frame ending a conversation actually as a coordination problem.
The conflict is in coordinating the end, not in wanting to end.
Which is what you're saying.
Many.
I hear that all the time, every day.
I've never thought about it that way.
It does assume ownership of your time.
What if I said...
I would love to get a little bit of my own time back today and hope maybe that's helpful for you.
I think we can wrap here.
Okay.
One of the things that my takeaway from thinking about kind of how I do this and then reading this review again, which I found very helpful, is