10 Avoiding eye contact
If you’re constantly avoiding eye contact during an interaction, it can make the other person feel as though you’re either uninterested in the conversation or, worse, that you have something to hide. As revealed in a Wall Street Journal report, maintaining eye contact is important because it lets the other person know that we are intently listening to what they’re saying instead of just looking down at our feet and spacing out. As a rule of thumb, we should spend 50 percent of the time making eye contact when we’re the ones speaking, and 70 percent of the time making eye contact when they are the ones doing the talking.
