one thing i learned and immediately applied to most of my conversations is consciously stopping after you’ve provided a sufficient response, don’t try to squeeze in all the details possible into that one response, let the conversation naturally lead there (a lot of times it won’t and that’s fine) but when it does, you have a clearly laid out response; trying this out in real life after years of trying to fit in as much information into a back and forth, and wondering why it’s almost like a one sided conversation, it made a huge difference, more times than not, the conversation usually went that direction, this ensures whoever i’m speaking to is on the same page as me.