If you want to know how to make people shun you and laugh at you behind your back and even despise you, here is the recipe; Never listen to anyone for long. Talk incessantly about yourself. If you have an idea while the other person is talking, don’t wait for him or her to finish: bust right in and interrupt in the middle of a sentence. Do you know people like that? I do, unfortunately; and the astonishing part of it is that some of them are prominent. Bores, that is all they are – bores intoxicated with their own egos, drunk with a sense of their own importance.
