Monthly Archives: November 2008

Read.

November 27 08

Read the news. Read books. Read blogs. Read gossip. Read Wikipedia. Read anything. The more you know, the more you’ll put things together, the more you can talk about. The more you know when someone talks to you about something, the better you’ll be able to carry on a conversation. The best is if you [...]

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Be interested.

November 27 08

The first way to be interesting is to be interested. Someone who’s interested – in whatever it is – is immediately interesting. Listen. Care. Be curious. Be intrigued. Be surprised. Take pleasure in learning whatever the person has to teach you. Very often we like to think of ourselves as self-important. We might ignore the [...]

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