From the course: Confident Communication for Introverts
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How to start conversations with anyone
From the course: Confident Communication for Introverts
How to start conversations with anyone
For most people, initiating a conversation with a stranger or someone they hardly know can be very challenging. And aside from overcoming our fears around it, which we now know how to do by creating growth zone exercises, there's still one more thing to figure out. What should we actually say? Naturally, in the end, we want to be able to simply start a conversation with whatever comes to mind in that moment. But to get to that point, it can be very helpful to have a strategy and maybe even a couple of memorized conversation starters to lean on. So in this video, I'll give you a framework that will help you come up with your own things to say to start conversations and give you a few examples that you can borrow if you want to. While there are probably millions of things we could say to start a conversation, they can pretty much all be sorted into one of two categories; direct or indirect conversation starters. A direct conversation starter is anything that makes it obvious that we're…
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