Microphone Sensitivity
How much you hear. Controls whether you pick up on the quiet signals — tone shifts, what someone didn't say, the things most people miss.
Alison Wood Brooks and the Shift from Being Interesting to Being Interested
Microphone Sensitivity controls how much you actually pick up from the world around you — the quiet signals, what's left unsaid, what someone is excited about. Alison Wood Brooks built her entire research framework around turning this dial up: listening not just for content but for emotional texture, the thing someone seemed unsure about, what they lit up over. She teaches people to stop broadcasting and start receiving.