Explaining on Instagram: "Follow (us) @Explaining to Learn something NEW every day 🧠💫 A University of British Columbia student from Calgary named Tim Chen found a surprising way to save money on rent. Instead of paying around $2,700 a month for a one-bedroom in Vancouver, he chose to live at home and fly to class twice a week, spending roughly $150 per roundtrip flight to attend his lectures. ✈️🎓 Because he only has a few hours of in-person classes each week, the cost of flying — about $1,200

Small talk isn’t the problem, it is how we do it. Alison Wood Brooks explains that most people hate small talk because they stay on surface level topics for too long. She says conversations become awkward and draining when they never move up the “conversation pyramid” into something more meaningful. Do you enjoy small talk or avoid it? #podcast #communication #bodylanguage #anxiety