One of my business partners and I are in the habit of interrupting people whenever they’ve said something that gets us excited.

Never mind that they’re only on sentence 2 of a 4-sentence paragraph that we will really profit from hearing… Sentence 2 made us think of something interesting that we have to share right now!  Fortunately, John and I trust and like each other enough that we can interrupt the interrupt with something like, “Hey, John — Amy’s still talking!”.  Said with a smile, it usually gets a giggle and a shut up.

The key to the trust is that we know that we have each other’s interests in mind.  When he interrupts, I know he’s not shutting me down to make me look bad — he’s shutting me down so I can get what I want.  And he always does it with a smile.

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