[BurningFrog]

I have a slightly different advice:

> unless they focus on some very narrow interests of mine.

I think OP's problem is that "other people" are not an interest of his. If it was, he'd never run out of things to talk about with these other people.

I also think that's a main reason people find those who can't keep up a conversation disturbing. They sense that you're not interested in them, and that makes you potentially dangerous.

[ElatedOwl]

Spot on IMO. People think they need to be interesting for people to care about them, but really you just need to be interested.