Interrupt someone who’s excited and you take more than their turn. You take the moment.

Excitement is more fragile than information. Cut in and the facts survive, because those can be repeated later, but the particular nerve it took to be openly thrilled about something usually does not come back. They finish in a flatter voice, if they finish at all.

If you talk over somebody mid-story this week, hand it back to them. Saying wait, go back, you were telling me about the audition costs nothing and restores most of it. Better still, feel the urge to jump in and let it pass.