Next time you're at a social function or networking event and you feel bored by small-talk, but fearful of asking profound questions, you can dive right in, says Remy Blumenfeld. Who knows, instead of simply adding a connection, you may actually make a new friend.
Who knows, instead of simply adding a connection, you may actually make a new friend, writes Remy Blumenfeld"So, what do you do?""Where do you live?""How do you know [Name of Host]?" are some of my least favorite kind of questions, because they don't elicit interesting answers. If you want to get to know someone, you'll have to do a lot better than this.
by being the first to ask a provocative question, strangers are usually only too happy to follow suit. Sociologists refer to these connections where there is an overlap of roles or affiliations from a different social context asSo, next time you're at a social function or networking event and you feel bored by small-talk but fearful of asking profound questions, you can dive right in, backed up by the knowledge that, far from being inappropriately nosy, you're on the quest of making multiplex ties. What's more, you're endorsed by Harvard.
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