I used to interrupt and cut people off all the time. I was doing it because I could already tell what they were going to say, already had a response for the next four things they’d say, and I was jumping the conversation forward for maximum efficiency while paying them what I thought was the compliment of assuming they could keep up. That’s not how people interpret someone interrupting them, however, and I had to realize that the insult of cutting them off almost always cost me more time fixing the situation than just listening would have.
