There’s a difference between adding to a conversation and taking it over. Notice which one you just did.

Enthusiasm comes in two versions, one that feeds a conversation and one that eats it. Both feel identical from the inside, since both come from having something to say, and the difference only shows in whether the other person got back to their own point. The test is whose subject was on the table when you stopped talking.

Replay the last conversation you were in and notice whose thing you ended on. If it was yours, hand it back next time with one question about theirs. People who leave a conversation talking about their own life remember it as a good one.