Knowing when to switch topics in a conversation is a tricky dance. If someone else brought up a topic and you switch things up rather quickly, it may seem like you weren’t listening or don’t care. Even if a topic is getting stale, most people are afraid to change it too quickly because they don’t want to seem rude.

However, according to her research, Harvard Business School Professor Alison Brooks says the key to having a great conversation is changing the subject more often than you think. 

Brooks recently shared her thoughts on topic switching in an interview with author Michael Lewis, discussing her new book TALK: The Science of Conversation and the Art of Being Ourselves. “A big way that we see people fail in conversation is stagnating too long on any........

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