"Be interested not interesting."
You'd be amazed how well this works. (Especially since FoRKers tend not
to be naturally reserved.)
- dan
> -----Original Message-----
> From: I Find Karma [SMTP:adam@milliways.cs.caltech.edu]
> Sent: Saturday, August 23, 1997 1:15 AM
> To: FoRK@pest.w3.org
> Subject: Re: Books (was FW: I am so totally controlled by my
> environment...)
>
> > 2. How men and women have slowly learned to have interesting
> conversations
>
> If the book teaches me how to have an interesting conversation,
> that alone would be worth the money.
>
> As for now, I fake "interesting" by seeming "interested" in whatever
> the "other" wants to talk about.
>