I remember being taught to not interupt people, etc...... unless they are really slow, then it is ok to finish their sentence for them...............

anyway.... in a meeting all morning....it was one person interupting another, to be interupted by another, to have that person get interupted...bla bla bla

it was funny to watch.

 

Well, from my experience, it's mostly because people are too impatient to actually wait their turn, and everybody is usually too impatient to give anybody else a chance to talk. It's kinda funny to see grown men all basically interupting eachother over and over again, none of them really saying much that hasn't been said or isn't already obvious.

Good chance to take a nap, though

 

People interrupt because what they have to say is far more <choose one: important, relevant, interesting, profound, accurate, incisive, entertaining, etc.> than what the person they interrupt is saying. Just ask them.

 

ya.... one guy took a breath between words, and damned if 2 people didn't attempt to interupt him.....they both talked for a bit until one of them shut up.......

we need to "drill down" and "put that on the action item list". bla bla bla

bingo!

 

Action item list.. oh its snoozeville for me at that point

 

i hate interupting....but sadly i do it myself!
lets all be frankful here , who doesnt..?

 

I think it involves the fact that our society is becoming more and more materialistic, which also encourages being self-centered, which leads to people not caring so much what other people say as trying to get words in edgewise.

 

I disagree, most interuptions that I encounter in meetings is when someone says something that someone else disagrees with .... the person that disagrees tends to interupt at that point so as not to allow the person that made the initial statement to have it heard by everyone else without the second person having a chance to give his point of view.

I have seen this happen a lot in meetings, and I have seen some of them just end up in full blown arguments

 

I believe I covered that--more important, more accurate, more relevant.

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by magician