Professor Alison Wood Brooks

I've always wanted to go.

Tell me.

Tell me about it.

You're so curious, aren't you?

So did I do the right thing then?

Okay.

Yeah.

What's the wrong thing to have done for me to just, just...

People do that all the time.

Boomer-asking?

People that do that don't know they do it.

Because I will obviously, you know, I will go for dinner or we'll have, I don't know, 10 of my colleagues there.

And then sometimes I'll have one particular colleague who is doing exactly that.

And they have no idea.

Yes.

Just like ask them about their thing.

They're new here.

We're trying to make them feel comfortable.

You can see it happening in their head because you say the word Mr. Chow's is your favorite restaurant and they immediately go, boom, I've got a brilliant story about Mr. Chow's that I need to tell everybody.

The other thing I've seen in meetings, which I've had to have a couple of conversations about historically, is when someone will be talking and then someone's listening going, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.