How To Be Interesting

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Its always impoertant to get the truth, but being interesting is more important than winning an argument. You owe it to yourself and to others to be interesting
Interest may arise from interesting things you have done, are oing or know abaout. Interets can aslo arise from how you conduct a conversation.

using the what if? technique can open up new possibilities and new lines of thought
Looking out for possibilities and alternatives enrcihes the conversation . There is usually more than one way of doing thins or looking at things.
Speculation looks foward and opens up new areas of interets. Description only looks backward
Finding and making connections links matters togteher and generates interest.
New ideas are rare and freshen any discussion. Seek to be creative and to generate new ideas. Lear and apply the formal techniques of lateral thingking.
Provocation is a useful way to force new ideas. You put foward a statement yu know to be wring or impossible in order to provoke new thingking
Use as a formal tool the phrases : 'Now that is interesting". Be ready to apply thus to anything you gear.
Seek to explore and elaborate and to pull interest out of any matter
Practise simpel exercise to develop your ability to create interets.
When somenone else opens up an interesting line of thought, go along with it and help to develop the interest further.

Source : Bono, Edward. 2004.How To Have A beautiful Mind. Vermilion London.

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