Anwar White suggests turning small talk into something deeper by asking why and how instead of what. Replace "What do you do?" with "Why did you decide to do that?" and "Where did you grow up?" with "How did you grow up?" to actually connect with people.
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Bro, I said, my issue is I'm not good with small talk bs, but I am great with deep, heavy conversations. The thing is that you're going to have to.
No one's gonna dive in the deep end of the pool with you.
They have to dip their toe in the water first. So one of the ways that I think that you should do this is not about having small talk. A lot of the questions that you might ask are.
Generally like yes or no questions or questions that start with what.
And a simple way to make small talk into medium talk is instead of asking what questions, ask why and how questions.
Instead of, what do you do for a living? The question is, why did you decide to do that for a living? Instead of.
You know, where did you grow up? It's, well, how did you grow up? Right? Talk to me about what that looked like for you. Was it, you know, were you a kid that played outside a lot, or were you inside playing video games all day?
Yeah.
I go through much more detail of this in my program, by the way.