Ask "How Do You Do Your Work?" To Engage Someone In Conversation

The dreaded question What do you do?

Instead, ask how they work.

As business blog Inc. points out, many people enjoy explaining how they do their work.

or What do you do?

Dont ask what someone does.

Instead ask how they do what they do.

People love talking about what they

actually

do for a living.

Not their jobs but their work, he explains in the Science of Us post.

And Im kind of obsessed with those small things, those little mistakes.

This strategy can apply to more than just work.

1 Question That Can Save Any Conversation| Inc.

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