Sometimes it can be hard to muster interest.

If you need a little motivation, turn it into a detective game.

This just wastes time.

The first key is to stop thinking of conversation as a tennis match.

(He scored a point.

Now I need to score a point.)

However, a good detective would learn as much as possible without forcing the situation into a specific template.

Chances are that the person youre talking to has something interesting in their life.

Make it a game to find it and youll struggle a lot less to seem interested.

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