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Handling interruptions with kindness & high dominance: Brad Pitt example
Usuaully, when two people speak at the same time and both want to speak, the most dominant person will be the one that actually speaks.
However, life is not a race to who dominates others, and it can be a kind and relationship-enhancing gesture to let others go first.
Problem is, if you relinquish your speaking time all the time, you might have issues in climbing social hierarchies and gaining power and status.
And you might come across as "too nice".
You want to be kind, but from a position of power. Kind is good... Too nice, if people confuse it for lack of confidence, is not.
Solution?
Enter, the "letting others go first with dominance".
See Brad Pitt doing it here:
Her: I heard...
Pitt: (interrupts her)
Her: (stops speaking)
Pitt: OK, go
Brad Pitt interrupts and she stops speaking because he's the star.
Pitt only hade to make a quick comment though and realizes the impasse. He gives her back the time to speak but tells her to go.
This is a little neat technique that you can start implementing in your life.
