Also, I have developed a bad habit of interrupting (probably from too many years spent in meetings with male colleagues dominating conversations — where it was interrupt or be left behind). When I start to interrupt — about halfway into the first sentence of my interruption — my brain catches up with my mouth, realizing I should’ve waited to speak. Then, there’s an apology and that awkwardness of “do I yield or continue with my interruption?” This makes me, I feel, a failure as both a listener and a talker.