How do you deal with having to make casual conversation with someone you have nothing in common?
How do you deal with having to make casual conversation with someone you have nothing in common?
At work, for example.
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The weather is a good starting point. How was your weekend? Any thing good planned for your holiday/ weekend? If they’re a talker they’ll fill in the space, if not then they’ll give perfunctory replies and you can revert to happy silence
That's a great strategy, I tend to ask a lot of questions when I'm in those situations too, just so I have to do as little talking as possible. People love talking about themselves too so I pretend to be interested in the bits they share about their life.
I guess it's just a bit hard to roll with it when you're really not interested at all, there are people with whom I like making chit chat. Others I have nothing in common with and it's an absolute chore.
Make the questions a game to try to unearth the thing you would find most fascinating about them.
That's a good suggestion, I don't know if I could keep it honest though, I may end up trying to unearth the thing I find the most repulsive.