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Skill: Mindfulness / not doing things on autopilot.
An underlying capacity that seems worth exercises to train explicitly, if we can figure out how to do that.
Subskill: Maintain awareness of things that would ordinarily zip right past.
Exercise A: Have a set of hand signals describing conversational modes and use them during conversation; something along the lines of the Philosophy Referee signals only more relevant, like a hand signal meaning "You are attempting to refute what I just said" or "I am accepting that implicit premise."
Exercise B: Hand signals to describe body language, tone of voice, facial expressions.
(What other continuously changing variables would be good to learn to pay attention to?)
I like WilliamSTK's reply:
Confusion-level. If everybody listening to you speak is registering high confusion. that's a sign you need to rethink (or just restructure) your current explanation.
Maybe keep track of strong emotional reaction, with modifiers for how strongly it's affecting your response to the conversation
That is a brilliant idea! Have you/are you planning to develop a language of this form?