Preview — The Goal
🎯 The Goal: Most 'listening' is just waiting — planning your reply while their mouth finishes moving. People FEEL that, even when they can't name it. The upgrade costs three seconds: when someone finishes speaking, pause a full beat before responding — and when you want them to go deeper, mirror their last few words back as a soft question. These two micro-moves are used by hostage negotiators and elite interviewers for one reason: they work on everyone.