Awkward! I have mastered 18 techniques to give birth to a baby, now I just need a man

Introduction: On the way to send my little niece to school in the morning, she said to me mysteriously: Auntie, I have mastered 18 techniques for coaxing babies, and now it’s up to you to give me a baby. . After listening to these words, I looked up to the sky and shed tears: Your aunt, I have mastered 18 techniques for giving birth to a baby, and now all I need is a man!

1. There was a new pretty female colleague, and a male colleague coughed in front of her. She said gently: "You have a cold?" The colleague was a little excited: "Well, a little bit!" Female colleague: "Then stay away from me."

2. They all say they want to capture a man's heart , first grab his stomach. After eating the meal my girlfriend cooked, it felt like all she could do was hold on to my dead body.

3. I bake sweet potatoes, but my family objected to it at first, and my friends didn’t think much of me, saying it was too hard. But through my efforts, the situation finally changed. I have used my actual actions to prove that baking sweet potatoes is not only hard work, but also not profitable.

4. Me: Do me a favor. My friend said: As long as it's not a loan, it's easy to talk about anything. Me: Please introduce me to a girlfriend. I have been single for twenty years... Friend: Otherwise, I'd better lend you some money!

5. I didn’t know until I met my primary school teacher today that the only certificate I got for being a three-good student in my entire study career was because my teacher bought too many certificates that year! I think I won't be able to sleep tonight...

6. My friend was in financial crisis and came to me for a loan. Seeing that I was a little reluctant, he immediately helped me recall the past. He said: "Think about it back then. You were so poor that you couldn't even afford a pair of trousers. Who lent you a skirt to wear?"

7. Before the third grade of primary school, I studied Mongolian and Han studies. In my class's school, the ethnic struggle was very fierce. When the Han class fell down during class, it was me who held them up to keep them from being wiped out. When I transferred to another school, I realized that I was actually Mongolian when I filled out my household registration. It was a summer afternoon, and when I was ten years old, I felt the pain of Xiao Feng, a Khitan man.

8. "Girl, you make me so sad!" The girl said, "I didn't offend you, right?" "You didn't offend me... please turn aside! The subway door is blocked by you alone. This is strict. ”

9. Sometimes you will never know how much potential you have if you don’t push yourself. It’s like if you give me 100 kilograms of bricks, I may not be able to carry them, but give me 100 Not only can I carry a kilogram of hundred-yuan bills, but I might also be able to run.

10. I saw a fat girl walking slowly on the treadmill at the gym. I went over to remind her: "Girl, you have to go faster, otherwise you won't achieve the effect of losing weight." The girl felt aggrieved. Answer: "I adjusted it very fast, but it slowed down as soon as I stepped on it!"

12. One day I was walking on the street and saw a fortune teller, so I calculated the fortune. He took my hand and suddenly knelt down. I was stunned. He said, "You have a portrait of the emperor." I slapped him in the face: "You scared me to death!"

13. The traffic police stopped the old man riding a bicycle and taught him with a smile: "Uncle, you can't ride on this road. It's so dangerous with so many cars. You can ride on the non-motorized lane." "Forget it, I still want to They are still alive. Let them run on the road to the train. ”

14. During class today, the math teacher was talking about angles in class, and suddenly he saw a classmate running away, so he asked him. Asked him to count how many corners he had, and saw the classmate make a strange move: he quickly squatted down and started counting the students' feet. Suddenly the whole class burst into laughter.

15. On the bus, an old man fell asleep and leaned on the back of a young man behind him. The young man acted as a "human cushion" and remained standing for 20 minutes until the old man got off the bus. This college student said in an interview: "I didn't think too much at the time. I just thought there was a girl behind me."

16. I am a girl. Once when I went back to school, I had a very familiar chat with an older brother on the train. , after getting off the train, I took his family’s car back to school, and his son came to pick him up. I went back to the dormitory and called my mother and told her that she had arrived at the dormitory and took the free bus back. My mother said: "Daughter, don't dare to do anything just because you are ugly!" What a bolt from the blue! Is this still my mother? How ugly am I?

17. In the subway, there was a middle-aged man on crutches with a plaster on his left leg. He held an enamel bowl with a few coins in front of me and shook it gently. I slowly raised my head, took a deep look at him, and said, "Brother, how badly injured is your leg? It's been more than two years and it hasn't gotten better at all." He turned around silently and walked to the next car. !

18. One day, a man went to a health care product store. After entering the store, he picked up an inflatable doll and ran away. After seeing it, the boss chased him for ten streets. The man stopped and said: "A Why are you chasing me so far for a 288 yuan inflatable doll? Just listen to the boss reply: This is the boss's wife!

19. The bus was too crowded and the driver stopped suddenly. The young man lost his center of gravity and accidentally pressed his hand on the private part of the middle-aged woman sitting next to him. He hurriedly said sorry, and the middle-aged woman became anxious. , I said you are a little hooligan, you are the only one who smells dirty.

The whole car was quiet...

20. I was working overtime at night, and I was sitting in front of the computer sorting out information. Suddenly a female colleague ran to me with tears streaming down her face and cried: "55555, my colleagues all bullied me, saying that I look good." It’s so scary.” “Don’t listen to their nonsense!” I finally came to and comforted her after half an hour.

21. Yesterday, an electrician in his 50s from the company abducted a cleaner in his 40s from the company next door! I want to say that it’s all the fault of dancing!

22. "Have you ever held a boy's hand?" "Arm wrestling..." I will never forget this conversation.

23. Recently, the department has a new leader. He has a good temperament. As long as he likes people, the work assigned to him is easy and the bonuses are bigger than others. His catchphrase was: "Just get along!" So I touched the back of my flat head and suddenly realized why the dirty work was all my own.

24. I went to buy steamed buns with my colleagues this morning. On the way, we kept discussing the big-breasted girl we saw yesterday. Finally, when we arrived at the bun shop, Doubi shouted to the boss: "Boss, you have 6 breasts, you want meat!" There were people around at that time!

25. Our family is going to travel tomorrow. My mother is a cautious person and checks the weather forecast online. After watching for a while, she worriedly said to me: "It seems we can't go tomorrow, it's going to rain!" I leaned over to take a look, and I was immediately frustrated. It was going to rain for a week, and my clothes wouldn't even dry. , so worried. But it’s raining in Shaoxing. This has nothing to do with whether we will travel to Xiamen tomorrow!

26. I was surfing the Internet with my boyfriend all night, and my phone ran out of battery. I saw that there was no room on the power strip, and I thought it would be okay to pull out a plug, so I pulled out the plug. After a while, I heard the people playing lol in this row yelling: "Damn it, why did you get disconnected?" My boyfriend told me to stop talking!

27. Husband: "Looking at how fat you are, and you still eat, can you get some snacks?" Wife: "Snacks? What kind of snacks!" Husband:...

28. Teacher : Please explain environmental factors and genetic factors! Xiao Ming: Looking like my father is due to genetic factors, and looking like my neighbors is due to environmental factors! Teacher: Old rules... Xiao Ming stood up silently...

29. The teacher called a student outside the classroom. Teacher: "Your homework is getting worse and worse. What's going on?" Student: "Teacher, let me find out the reason and tell you this afternoon, okay?" Teacher: "Okay!" In the afternoon, the teacher asked again The student was called outside the classroom. Teacher: "Did you find the reason?" Student: "I found it. My grandfather said that the homework is getting more and more difficult, and there is nothing he can do about it."

30. Husband: Dear, didn't you say you wanted to give it to me? A hat? Wife: Oh, I almost forgot, it’s in the backpack! Husband: Honey, why is it green? Wife: What, don’t you like the green one? Husband: No, I'm afraid... I'm afraid that others will gossip... Wife: What gossip are you talking about? Husband: Call me a cuckold... Wife: Fuck, just say it, what are you afraid of! You can confidently say to others, "Is your wife so good to you?"...

Postscript: Every day, girls come to his restaurant to eat, sit by the window, and order two A set meal. Every time he asked how many people were dining, she would shyly say two people, but then she would finish the meal silently alone. He thought maybe someone had been with the girl, but that person was no longer there. Finally one day, he wanted to go over and ask the girl to listen to her story, but he heard the girl saying to herself: "Two servings are so small, not enough to eat!" Platinum Rules in the Workplace: Master the Skill of Listening

< p> Platinum Rules in the Workplace: Master the Skills of Listening

Master the Skills of Listening

Dear Young Friends:

In the process of obtaining information, what is important to you? The most important thing to say is listening.

Listening is so important, how to master the skills of listening? In fact, whether you can master listening skills depends on your attitude and performance when listening.

It would be wrong to listen to other people's information without doubting its authenticity and considering its value.

Do not listen with or showing that you do not value the information provided by others.

There is a saying called "Spit it out quickly", which means that when a person encounters troubles, difficulties or interesting things, as well as information that he thinks is very new or learns the inside story that others don't know, he will spit it out quickly. You will find someone you trust to talk it out from beginning to end. When you meet such a person, you will have a good opportunity to obtain information. Although what he wants to say may not necessarily be what you want, but you Still listen carefully to what he has to say.

No one wants to chat with someone who is indifferent to what they are saying. Therefore, you must be very willing to listen to what others have to say, so that you can make others think that you are a person who is willing to talk and easy to communicate with. , and thereby willing to provide information to you.

In other words, if you want to master the skills of listening, you must first correct your attitude.

Sometimes, what others say will make you feel uncomfortable or hard to hear. Especially when they are trying to persuade you, it is inevitable that some words will be harsh to your ears, but you still Listen attentively to the end, and tell yourself that good advice is hard to hear but helpful to action. You should be happy if someone can say these words to you.

Secondly, know how to choose. The narrator may say a lot of things, some of which are useful and some useless, some good and some bad, but no matter what it is, you must listen carefully. , as for what to believe and how to act afterwards, it is a matter of your own choice.

This information will be of great benefit to you if you can extract the essence.

Third, give the other party an appropriate response to let the other party know that you are listening carefully.

Listening does not mean listening blindly. When you do not understand something, when you particularly want to understand in detail but the other party does not explain it clearly, you can appropriately say that what you just said is very important, but not Can you explain it in more detail? I don’t quite understand this. Can you explain it? Wait.

Giving the other party some reaction is actually a kind of encouragement to the other party, making the other party feel that what he said is important to you, and of course he will speak in more detail.

Fourth, don’t let the other person feel that you are busy.

Anyone who knows anything knows that talking to someone when they are busy is a waste of their time.

If you are busy here and there while listening to someone speak, the speaker will swallow back all the words that need to be said.

If you are really busy, you should let the other person talk about the important points or change the time.

Just like when you are telling someone something and you see that they are busy, you will keep the story short or change the time to talk again.

But sometimes the information the other party wants to say is very important to you. Even if you are really busy, you should show a very leisurely expression and let the other party say it. Otherwise, he will not be able to get the information in the future. I won't tell you anymore.

Fifth, you must have enough patience.

Sometimes, someone has a lot of complaints and wants to vent it out. At this time, if you don’t have anything particularly important, it’s best to be his or her listener patiently.

When someone vents all their troubles, changes their mood from bad to good, and becomes happy from then on, the other person will regard you as a confidant. Even if you don't do anything for him, he will be very grateful to you. .

Perhaps, you can also get a lot of useful information from others talking.

Moreover, listening to people with troubles with an accepting attitude can change their mood more effectively than helping them in other ways.

This is active listening in psychology.

If you are a leader and you can actively listen when your subordinates encounter troubles, this will make your subordinates feel that you care, thus making your relationship more harmonious.

Just like what a psychologist said: When a person is full of troubles, what he hopes most is the understanding eyes of others and the patience to listen to his own nagging, rather than accepting them. It's no use getting angry. Things have already happened. I still want to preach or encourage you to believe in yourself and get back on your feet.

Just as when you want your injured body to get better quickly, the newly healed wound will open again due to improper methods, for a person who is mentally injured, no matter how many words of comfort you have, the effect will be very small. Micro.

Only when the other person feels that you can empathize with him and fully understand his emotions, can the other person gradually let go.

Don’t look at listening simply. You must know that listening is also very particular. People who know how to listen will get unexpected information and benefits in the process of listening, while people who don’t know how to listen will get unexpected information and benefits. , it’s hard to get it all.

Your friend William Durant, it’s time for me to be sensible now. Tell me about it.

It’s time for me to be sensible now.

1. Time tells me, The childishness of me has passed, and now I should be sensible. I was cute once, 222`

2. It’s 20xx, time flies so fast, I am one year older, it’s time to be sensible, I am working harder now than I was in 2013 to achieve my goals. .

Third, another birthday. Time flies so fast, and it’s already the year of my birth in a blink of an eye. At this age, it's time to be mature and sensible. Some things and some people are always in my heart and will never be forgotten, let alone given up! The road of life is still too long, and we never know what will happen in the future. So cherish everything you have now. Now, I am very happy. I have a warm home, a woman I love deeply, and friends I trust. That’s enough!

4. In the blink of an eye, 17 years have passed. When I was a child, I was young and ignorant. Now I am ignorant. It’s time to be sensible. When school starts, you will see a different me

5. Dear girl, in five or six years you will no longer be the ignorant and carefree girl you were at the beginning. You will become a woman in the workplace. You must be strong and brave enough to challenge. , you can’t be so cowardly anymore, you should be sensible now, come on, girl.

---Dedicate this to me now.

6. As people come and go, looking at the busy people, everyone has their own story, everyone has a different posture, different life experiences, I am already an adult, but It's like a child who has never grown up always feels insecure. It's time to grow up and be sensible. Now I just want to live my life quietly. Without your presence, I won't disturb you. Just give it to myself. Leave the last bit of self-respect behind, good night!

7. I want to tell myself, don’t be so impulsive in the future, it’s time to be sensible. But when I think about it, I am just a girl who is not yet 17 years old. In another 17 years, maybe I will be When society smoothes away the edges and corners of my body and turns me into a smoother version of myself, then I will be more envious of who I am now. At least now I am very real. Well, that’s good too.

8. Time tells me that after the age of being unreasonable has passed, it’s time to be sensible. Now I just want a stable life, I’ve had enough fun! I want to live a down-to-earth life. Stable happiness is what I want

9. Before everything gets better, you will always have to experience some unhappy days. These days may be very long, or they may just wake up; the most precious The most valuable thing is not the material things I own, but the people who stay with me; time tells me that the age of being unreasonable has passed, and it’s time to be sensible; although I don’t know the future, I will move forward even if I use the clumsiest method; in the best of times Only when I meet you at this age can I live up to myself and give it to me now.

10. Seeing my dad like this makes me feel so bad that I want to cry. Now I don’t have anyone around me who can accompany me. I feel so bad that I don’t know who to talk to. My dad has worked hard all his life and now he is hospitalized again. Watching my father feel sorry for Liu, it’s time for him to grow up and become sensible.

11. Time tells me that the age of being unreasonable has passed, and now I should be sensible. . Time flies so fast that I can't see the future clearly. In my world, you cannot be missing. You are the only one I have

12. Today, my mother said that my brother finally knows how to care for others. Yes, he is almost thirty years old and it’s time to be sensible. He occupies an indispensable place in my heart. In the alternative position, even though he was rebellious and hurt his family, now I have decided to forgive and let go of the past pain. I will secretly help him buy a house and give the money to my mother, so that my mother will feel more at ease, dear. Brother, although you are not good at words and have a bad temper, we love you and support you. .

13. Now I remind myself almost every day that I am already 26 years old. It is time for me to be mature and sensible, and it is time for me to learn the responsibilities of a man. But why is there still no change every day? Even though I know I obviously want to become better, but I am like a waste. No one cares about my ideals, so I gradually become as desolate as the desert

14. Time tells me that the age of being unreasonable has passed. , it’s time to be sensible. Now I don’t blame anyone, laugh at anyone, or envy anyone. The sun is shining brightly, running in the wind and rain, dreaming your own dreams and walking your own path. All is well, really, all is well.

15. Today, I am legally 21. Alas, I am a lot of old people. It’s time to be sensible! Now I should learn to understand what should be done and what should not be done; what should be thought and what should not be thought. Be yourself and be present!

16. Mother’s love and father’s love are your love that make me who I am now! Mom said it was time for me to be sensible. I am already in my twenties and I still speak without thinking. For whom did Dad work so hard for decades? I should understand this and not be angry with him all the time. Today, my grandma also told me that I shouldn’t treat him like this. It’s only now that I understand how difficult it is for my father! I will never do anything stupid again, and I will never think about them after every selfish act.

17. It’s time for me to be sensible now. I can’t rely on myself forever. I can only rely on myself. No matter how good my parents are, they can't be with me forever. They always have to face everything by themselves. Now if you are like this, what will happen in the future? If you tell your family that you are tired from work, what will change? Every time I go home during the Chinese New Year, my parents ask me if I am tired from working in the factory. But I told them that I was not tired at all. No matter how tiring the path I chose, I could only swallow it in my stomach.

18. My parents are always the best to me. It’s time for me to be sensible now. Mom and Dad, I have done a lot of things that made you sad. I’m sorry. I won’t do this again in the future. Thank you. I love you for your tolerance and love for me.

19. I don’t know whether it was impulsiveness or some other reason, so I made such a decision. I hope I won’t regret it, and I also hope I can really get some exercise. Now I should be sensible. , I am no longer a child, I can't just do whatever I want. Now I should think about it carefully. I can't just think about taking one step at a time. That's not what I want, is it? So please keep your mind clear. Get ready, come on! Own.

The me of twenty or three years ago, the me of two years ago, the me of a year ago, and the me now, have grown up and matured little by little. It’s time to be sensible. I just want to tell you I have grown up and there is no reason to continue playing unscrupulously. I have to be responsible for myself. Happy Birthday

21. One is the best brother to me, and the other is a good friend from my hometown. I really feel that I should be content with what I am now. Thank you both for helping me when I was most helpless and confused. Enlighten me and teach me how to look at problems correctly, face them, and not avoid them.

It’s time to stop being a child and be sensible. Thank you. In the future, I will take one step at a time and walk steadily. I will never be as impetuous as before. People who are impatient really can't do anything.

22. This is a new beginning, and it is definitely the end of the past. Thank you for letting me see clearly who around you will not lie to you, and who is sincere to you. There is no use in lying, there will always be a day when it is exposed. It is useless for me to be weak and incompetent. I believe that no one will cheat and that a person can change, although that is just a fantasy. That's all in the past. Now I won't be so stupid anymore. I'm a sophomore in high school and it's time to be sensible.

23. Should I be sensible? It cannot be left in disrepair any longer. Dating is really not for me. Yeah? Should I think about it in the future? What should I do now?

Twenty-four. After all the ups and downs, both the unhappy and the happy have passed. I am looking forward to doing the things now. Now I should be sensible. I am no longer a little girl and have to face more things. 19 years old of me growing up.

25. I forgot how long it has been since I wrote. It’s not that I have no ideas, but I find that I no longer have the same feeling as before. Now my heart seems to be unable to calm down. Apart from going to work every day, I just empty my mind and do meaningless things. Some people say that this is a waste of life. At this age, it is time to be sensible and do something meaningful. , valuable things, I don’t understand what is meaningful and valuable?

26. Counting down how many things I did in the past that made my family sad, I should be sensible now. Forgive me. In the past, I loved freedom uninhibitedly, and I pursued it in a decadent and decadent way. After listening to various songs and reading many articles, I realized that family love is the most precious.

27. I was spoiled since childhood and entered the society early. During the rebellious period, I chose to run away from home and hurt my family’s hearts. My family knows how sad it is to be like this now. , sometimes I only care about myself and never care about the feelings of my family, especially my grandma. She loves me the most and cares about me the most since I was a child. I am here to say thank you for your hard work, grandma. It's time for me to be sensible now.

28. I know this will be difficult, but I will work very hard to change myself~ Because now it’s time for me to grow up and be sensible~ Please supervise me~

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29. Idiot, you said I don’t care about you, but now I have nothing to care about you, and what qualifications do I have to care about you? No matter what you do, you have to learn self-discipline alone. You are already twenty and it’s time to be sensible.

Thirty. I haven’t been back to school for a long time. When I leave home, I suddenly feel a little reluctant to leave! The first thing I felt when I arrived in Chongqing was that I was very conflicted. I thought I should change my mentality now. I am no longer a child and should be sensible! But it is indeed inconvenient to go back to school. I feel like if I go back to the dormitory now, no one may be there! There was no one to accompany me when I ate, and I didn’t like the food in the cafeteria. 10 tips to teach you how to improve conversation skills, what are the speaking skills, and how to master speaking skills

10 tips to teach you how to improve conversation skills, what are the speaking skills, and how to master speaking skills

< p> 1. Don’t be half-hearted

I’m not saying simply put down your phone, tablet, car keys, or everything else in your hands. I mean, be in the moment, be in the conversation.

Don’t think about the argument you had with your boss or what you had for dinner. If you want to stop talking, just stop. Don't be in Cao's camp and your heart is in Han.

2. Don’t be a teacher

If you want to express your opinions without leaving any opportunity for people to respond, argue or refute, write a blog. There's a good reason why expert preaching isn't allowed in conversations: It's boring.

If the other person is a conservative, they will hate Obama, food stamps, and abortion. If the other person is a liberal, he or she will hate the big banks, the oil companies, and Dick Cheney. These are completely predictable and you don't want that.

You need to enter into every interaction with the assumption that you can learn something.

The famous psychotherapist M. Scott Pike said: True listening requires putting yourself aside; sometimes, that means putting your personal opinions aside.

Feeling this acceptance, the person talking will become less vulnerable and sensitive, and more and more likely to open up his or her inner world and present it to the listener.

Again, assume you will learn something new during this conversation.

Bill Nye said: There is something you don’t know about every person you are going to meet.

Let me rephrase this: everyone is an expert in something. (When three people travel together, there must be one teacher.)

3. Use open-ended questions

Regarding this, please refer to the reporter’s interview questioning method: who, what, when, Where, why or how to start asking questions.

If you ask a complex question, you will usually get a simple answer.

If I ask you: were you afraid at that time? You will respond to the most powerful word in that sentence: fear, and the answer will be yes or no.

Were you angry at the time?

Yes, I was very angry.

Let the other person describe it. The other person is the one who understands the situation.

Try asking the other person: What does that look like? how are you feeling?

Because in this way, the other person may need to stop and think about it, and you will get a more interesting answer.

4. Express immediate thoughts naturally

In other words, ideas will naturally flow into your mind, and you need to express them.

We often hear the guest in the interview speak for a few minutes, and then the host turns back to ask questions. It seems like this question comes from somewhere or has already been answered. This shows that the host may not have been listening two minutes ago because he thought of this very clever question and was thinking about asking it.

We will do the same. When we're sitting with someone talking, we might suddenly remember that chance encounter with Hugh Jackman in a coffee shop, and then we stop listening. Stories and ideas will always come to you. Even if you can't stop them, don't let them linger in your mind too much. Ask them out.

5. Knowing is knowing, not knowing is not knowing

People on radio programs, especially National Public Radio (NpR), know very well that their conversations will be broadcast go out. So they will be more careful about the areas in which they claim expertise and what they say with certainty.

Learn to do this: be careful in your words and actions.

Talking should be responsible behavior.

6. Don’t compare your own experience with others

If the other person talks about losing a family member, don’t start talking about the loss of your family; if the other person is talking about work problems, bother, don't tell them how much you hate your job.

This is different and will never be the same.

Every experience is unique.

And, more importantly, this isn't about you.

You don’t need to prove how capable you are or how much pain you have endured at this moment.

Someone once asked Stephen Hawking what his IQ was, and he replied: I don't know. Anyone who brags about their IQ is a loser.

Conversation is not about selling yourself.

7. Try not to repeat your own opinions

This is pushy and boring, but we do it easily, especially in work interactions or conversations with our children.

We wanted to make a point, so we kept saying it in different ways. Don't do this.

8. Don’t get hung up on the details

To put it bluntly, no one cares about the year, name, date, etc. No one else cares about the details you are trying to recall in your mind.

What they are paying attention to is you. They care about what kind of person you are and what they have in common with you.

So forget about the details. Leave them alone.

9. Listen carefully

This is not the last one, but the most important one. I can't tell you how many important people have said that listening is probably the most important, the first skill you should develop.

Buddha said: If you don’t stop talking, you won’t learn anything. Calvin Coolidge once said: No one was ever fired for hearing too much.

Why are we unwilling to listen to each other?

First, we prefer to say. As I speak, I am in control. I don't have to listen to anything I'm not interested in, I'm the center of attention and I can reinforce my identity.

But there’s another reason: we get disrupted. The average person can speak 225 words per minute, but can listen to 500 words per minute. So our brains are occupied with these other 275 words.

I know it takes a lot of energy to really pay attention to what others are saying. But if you don't, you're not having a conversation. You are just two people in the same place shouting unrelated things to each other.

You must listen to each other.

Stephen Covey has a wonderful discussion of this. He said: Most of us don't listen to understand. We listen in order to respond.

10. Be concise and to the point

A good conversation is like a miniskirt that is just right: short enough to be attractive but long enough to cover the point. My sister's metaphor.

All of this boils down to the same concept: taking an interest in other people.

I grew up with a famous grandpa, a house full of guests, and visitors who would come and talk to my grandparents.

And after those people left, my mother would come over to us and say: Do you know who that is? She was the runner-up of Miss America, he was the mayor of Sacramento, she won the Pulitzer Prize, and he was a Russian ballet dancer.

As I grew up, I learned that everyone has something wonderful that no one knows about.

Honestly, I think it's made me a better presenter.

I try to talk as little as possible, but keep my mind open, and always be prepared to be surprised, and I've really never been disappointed.

You can also do this, go out, talk to others, and listen to others.

And most importantly: prepare to be surprised.