If someone is taking advantage of your good listening habits, there are a couple of things you can do. You can try to gently redirect the topic so that they tell you something of interest to you, or teach you something that you did not know. You can also try to ask them how their topic should matter to someone like you.
You can say, “You seem to know a lot about this subject. I have a friend in the same boat as me. How can I convince him to take more interest in this?”
By doing this, you’re trying to get the talker to be less focused on himself, and to think more about your needs within the conversation.
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