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| Another networking opportunity |
Did you know I once slept in Elizabeth Taylor's bed?
Why have I never told you that story? Perhaps you have a great story too that you've never told me?
The indispensible Scott Adams wrote a stimulating blog post with the amazingly boring title
Active Listening. (Important though the concept is, a title like that usually makes me tune out.) Most of the post is basic
Dale Carnegie stuff (seek first to understand and only then to be understood, etc.) but there is a nestled gem lurking in the penultimate paragraph:
Most people have at least one good story in them. And you can usually find that story by asking where the person lived and what their parents did for a living.
Networking is much much more fun when you can get people to talk about unusual things. It's always more interesting precisely because it's unusual, and who doesn't like things that are more interesting? It's also more memorable and, as Adams points out, it leads to deeper and more meaningful connections with people.
What's interesting? Well...
