Most conversations are designed to keep things moving.
How are you?
What do you do?
How was your weekend?
They’re useful questions. But they’re rarely memorable.
A deeper conversation begins when we stop trying to fill silence and start becoming genuinely curious about another person’s thinking.
Instead of asking what someone does, ask what they enjoy about it.
Instead of asking whether they agree, ask why.
Instead of preparing your response while someone is speaking, listen long enough to understand what they actually mean.
Good conversation isn’t about having interesting things to say.
It’s about making another person feel that what they have to say is worth hearing.
Sometimes the most meaningful connection begins with a better question.