10 ways to have a better conversation

1. Don't multitask. Don't think about anything else. If you want to get out of the conversation, get out of the conversation. Don't be half in it. 
2. Don't pontificate. If you want to talk about without listening, write a blog (lol). Everybody you ever meet, will know something you don't. Everybody is an expert is something. Strive to learn that. Assume that you have something to learn. 
3. Use open ended questions. Who What When Where How.
4. Go with the flow. Ideas and stories are gonna come to you during the listening period, let them go. 
5. If you don't know, say that you don't know. 
6. Don't equate your experience with theirs. It's not the same. It's never the same. Every experience is the same. Secondly, it's not about you. Conversations are not a promotion opportunity. Conversations. Are. Not. A. Promotional. Opportunity!
7. Don't repeat yourself.
8. Stay out of the weeds. Forget the details. People don't care. 
9. Listen! If you're moth is open, you're not learning. No man ever listened his way out of a job. 
10. Be Brief. 

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