Contents:
- Medical Video: How To NOT Be Boring | 5 Tips To Be More Interesting
- 1. Use open questions to start the conversation
- 2. Listen to what the other person is saying
- 3. Be careful when joking
- 4. Open yourself up and say honestly
- 5. Know when to open and close the conversation
Medical Video: How To NOT Be Boring | 5 Tips To Be More Interesting
Have you ever felt like you ran out of conversation when you were with your partner? Or conversations with office friends suddenly stop. Or you always feel awkward when you have to talk to other people? If this happens, there may be something wrong with the way you talk or maybe you just don't know how to build a good conversation. The following tips can help you to solve communication problems that often occur.
1. Use open questions to start the conversation
Try to use open questions when starting a conversation. Open questions are questions whose answers are not just "Yes" and "No". This is intended to open the initial conversation path to be able to open the next topic. For example, you can ask, "How did you go here?"
Reporting from the TEDx website, Celeste Headlee said that from that one sentence you would let the other person talk about his experience and the possibility of finding an advanced topic to talk about would be far greater than you just asking "Did the traffic jam happen?"
2. Listen to what the other person is saying
Everyone can talk, but not everyone can listen. Not a few lovers or husband and wife fight only because when one party talks, the other party does not listen well. Remember, everyone needs to be heard.
If you are in a listener's position, imagine that you are speaking yourself. Of course you want to be heard, right? Don't think too much about what you want to respond or answer. Let the conversation flow. Whereas your conversation will not flow properly if you do not concentrate on listening to the person who is speaking.
3. Be careful when joking
Humor and jokes in an important conversation are inserted so that the conversation that runs is not too rigid and serious. Jokes can also be a tool to melt the atmosphere. However, be careful when making jokes. Don't use sensitive things as your joke.
Especially if the person you're talking to is someone you just know. Instead of building a better conversation, you can actually "kill" the conversation.
4. Open yourself up and say honestly
In a conversation, it's important to be open and honest, be yourself and what you are. Why so? Even though you are not aware, other people are usually able to detect lies in your words. This will certainly make other people lazy to talk to you.
Likewise if you are too close. Other people would be awkward when they want to make small talk or ask you questions. Therefore, you need to be open and honest so that with whom you talk, you don't need to be shocked.
5. Know when to open and close the conversation
As a good interlocutor, you should know when you should start and stop the conversation from the signal given by your interlocutor. Usually, someone who wants to finish the conversation will look nervous and not focus on you. Either see the clock repeatedly, circulate the view around it, and a series of other things that indicate that he wants to finish for some reason. If this is the case, the sign is that you need to close the conversation immediately.
Building a conversation is indeed easy and difficult. However, don't make this an obstacle to being able to have fun chat with other people.
