Professor Alison Wood Brooks

I think Brene Brown said to me that when she comes home and she's out of energy, she'll just say to her partner, listen, I'm on 10% today, so I can't deal with this now.

What if you're not a warm person?

been accused of being very serious.

Asking for a friend.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

People say to me, people say to me a lot, like, you're very serious.

I'm like, really?

I think I come across as serious sometimes.

You're using flattery.

I've seen that on your compass.

I find it really useful to give people my email address to end the conversation.

It just ends the conversation immediately.

Yeah.

Someone will come up to me and say, hey, I've got this business idea I want to pitch and then they'll start pitching.

And if I go, do you know what, send me, here's my email.

And I shake their hand, the conversation ends immediately.

Maybe, however, in the context of like being in the gym and I'm like mid-set and someone comes over and says, here's my email.

It seems to end the conversation.

And it feels to be like, please help me here.

What would be a better way to...