A four-word phrase—"Tell me more"—makes people reveal more about themselves and makes you seem more credible. It buys you time to think while building rapport and turning shallow talk into real conversation.
This one sentence with 4 words can make you more credible and people will open up to you. So this sentence is called, hmm, tell me more. A lot of time when we are connecting with people, when we are having a conversation, we don't go deeper. We are waiting for our turn to speak. But if you want to become a great communicator who are having a deep conversation, you want to use this magic word. Hmm, tell me more, or tell me a little bit more about that, or that sounds interesting, can you tell more? When you do that, you are building rapport and connection with the person because all of us want to talk more about ourselves, right? So you're giving the opportunity. And the other advantage is that you are also getting some time to prepare your response for the question that they have asked, or for putting your perspective out there.
