That is how I meant it. Just observation. When I was younger engineer. I did 'I' self reference speech a lot. It was years later I realized it was alienating

That is how I meant it. Just observation. When I was younger engineer. I did 'I' self reference speech a lot. It was years later I realized it was alienating people. Now really focus more time on listening, and only speaking about what the other person is interested in. Now when others are always using "I", it just stands out at me. People really are simple, and want to talk about themselves, so if you realize this, and talk about what others want to talk about, you get along better. I picked it up from Dale Carnegie, 'How to Win Friends and Influence People'. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Win_Friends_and_Influence_People https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Win_Friends_and_Influen...