Dr. Aziz demonstrates an extremely simple conversation starter—point at something a person is carrying and ask, “What's that?”—illustrated with a supermarket anecdote where this line began a conversation that led to exchanging numbers and a six-month dating relationship. The clip emphasizes curiosity, warmth, and familiarity as the mechanism that makes the prompt disarming and likely to elicit a genuine conversation.
Six months.
October 1, 2025.
Do you want to know a stupidly easy way to start a conversation? In fact, this is actually how I met a woman that I ended up dating for six months with this conversation starter. That's literally two words. You want to know what it is? You point at something that they have that they're carrying, that's on them, whatever, and you say, what's that? That's it. With just curiosity, warmth, familiarity. So I walked up to this woman. She was in a supermarket. She had a little basket. It was on the ground. She had some little container in there of some herb that was like a coffee substitute. I. I didn't know any of this, by the way. I just looked at it. I pointed at it, and I said, what's that? She was like, oh, that. I was like, yeah, tatino thing. She's like, oh, it's a cop. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. We started a great conversation from that, ended up getting her number, ended up dating for six months. What's that? Why? Because it's so familiar. It's so disarming. Especially if you point at something that they like or that they're into, they're happy to share. And boom, now you're having an authentic, real conversation that just flows.
