Tag: conversation skills
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Types of poor questions
Most of us get asked them and most of us ask them. A lot of poor questions are hand me down scripts from our family, friends and society (media). We learn how to ask questions from speaking age and continue the cycle until we unlearn what we want to unlearn. Why unlearn them? Well, if…
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What makes you interesting to others
It’s not a question you can ask, can you? It would be weird even if you asked a friend what makes you interesting. Not because you asked but because their definition of what makes you interesting wouldn’t be the same as yours or mine. So, then why bother discussing this? Well, when you can understand…
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Questions about your ethnicity
Where were your parents born? or What’s your background? Questions that are referring to ethnicity in subtle ways. Yet, with all these questions, what does ethnicity really mean? Not being an expert myself, I recently read a book by anthropologist, Manning Nash, called “The Cauldron of Ethnicity in the Modern World” and watched the EPIX…