Aubrey Carter

Set the bar differently.

Okay, let's jump into number two, because this is so key.

And it is to ask short, relevant follow-up questions.

Remember that you don't have to add new information to join into a conversation.

You can keep it moving by inviting the other person to talk more or interjecting something in a natural way.

Exactly, right?

If you do nothing but ask these follow-up questions in a conversation, and then you all go your separate ways, everyone will remember you as being someone that cared about them, that was interested in their story, that was participating in the conversation.

Yeah.

Too rare.

Right.

And we can't help it.

We all have egos.

It's hard to fight it.

Sure we do.

But yes, be the person that's interested, that asks these follow-up questions, that makes people feel like you really care about what they're saying.

Yes.

Or wait, where was this?

Because often, especially if they haven't shared that detail, if they haven't shared where they were or what year it was, wait, when did that happen?

Exactly.

Or what did she say, right?