The Rise Of Conversational Narcissism

AH, yes.

Let me go ahead and get you a definition of “conversational narcissism” from here:

Sociologist Charles Derber describes this tendency as “conversational narcissism.” Often subtle and unconscious, it’s the desire to take over a conversation, to do most of the talking, and to turn the focus of the exchange to yourself. Derber writes that it “is the key manifestation of the dominant attention-getting psychology in America.”

Wow. Lot to unpack here. By the way, the article I linked out is from TED and it’s about why you shouldn’t say “I know exactly how you feel.” Read it. It’s interesting.

Conversational narcissism and the wrong 80–20

The “right” 80–20 is listen 80 percent of a conversation, talk about your own stuff 20 percent.

The wrong 80–20 would flip that — and in the process be the definition of conversational narcissism.

What a networking event typically looks like