the secret to being interesting
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Why is asking questions important?
I've assumed so many things about my partners. I just should have asked them. I've assumed so many opportunities in my life. Oh, we're closed. I should have just asked them. I know what you're probably wondering. What are you doing in the middle of this field? How did you get here? Why are you doing this? I like that. What? I like that. What are you saying? I like that you asked that question. We, as a society, in my opinion, we need to ask more questions. We need to ask more questions of each other. We need to ask more questions in general. We need to ask more questions. I feel as if there used to be a curiosity towards daily life. At least growing up, that's how I felt. I couldn't help but be curious about everything. When my grandma...
took me to the Verizon store, random memory incoming, to change her phone, I would be asking the Verizon employee about the Blackberry. You guys remember Blackberries? Showing my unk status. I'd be like, how does this work? Why are there keys on it? Why is this not the same as a keyboard on a computer? I would just ask questions. And I would ask questions to learn, of course, because I think, you know, knowledge is power and knowing things is good. You never know when you might need some info. But I mainly ask questions to connect with people, to understand. Just get like a read on somebody. So many times, like, I've realized, oh, hell no, when dating, when I ask somebody a simple question. When's the last time you talked to your ex? And they say, well, it's a little complicated. You see, like we're on break, but like we're not really on break. Like I'm going to break up with him. It's just like right now it's a little bit weird. I'm just like, yeah, I'm just figuring things. You're on break. Okay. All right. I'm trolling. No, bro. But like ask questions. Ask questions.
Man, I think that. There is so much power in being interested in people and treating every kind of conversation you go into as, what can I learn? What can I learn? People love to talk about themselves. I don't know if you've tapped into this meta, but you talk to anyone, you compliment them, you say, oh, like, I like your shirt with the bear on it. Where'd you get that? And they'll be like, oh, man, bro, like. I, like, picked this up. Like, my grandma got this for me, man. She's a G. It just opens up a door. You asking a question opens up a door. It opens up an avenue to go down with someone and relate to somebody. Because a lot of us, like, don't do that. I've talked to a lot of people. Talked to a reference? Absolutely.
But I've talked to a lot of people who just, like, oh, yeah. Oh, for real? Yeah. Oh, really? Yeah. Hmm. No, it's interesting. And I mean, hey, I've also talked to people who straight up, like, did not give a sigma about me. They did not want to talk to me. And I get the vibe and I'm like, I'm going to move elsewhere where my business is needed. But... Du liegst in der Badewanne und hörst deinen Podcast. Doch hui, das Plätschern des Wassers wird zum Meeresrauschen und plötzlich fliegst du in den Süden. Ägypten, Kanaren, Griechenland, Türkei, Karibik. Der warme Sand zwischen den Zehen, ein kühles Getränk in der Hand und die Sonne auf der Haut. Nicht träumen, Alturs buchen. Alles drin, alles gut, alles für dich. Alturs, alles aber günstig.
Jetzt im Reisebüro oder auf alturs.de. Asking questions is powerful and I'm going to try to give you some game as to like how you can ask better questions. So I think that in my opinion, a lot of conversations I have with people are predicated around like curiosity. I think curiosity is the first thing. So having an open mind and being like, let me try to learn something. What can you learn about people? Literally everything. A very easy thing is learning where they come from. What their upbringing was like, like, where are they from? I would do this a lot in college and I do this a lot even here, like, you know, in Austin meeting people. I'm just very curious about different places in the world, what they're like. I had a, you know, a best friend that played soccer in Columbia.
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