Topics is the T in Alison Wood Brooks's TALK Framework — the what of a conversation, the raw material everything else is built on. Her research shows that great conversationalists treat topic selection as an active skill: they do Topic Prep before important conversations, they move through the Topic Pyramid deliberately, and they notice when a topic has gone stale and switch rather than grinding. Bad conversations almost always fail at this layer first.
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