being interesting

“Don’t worry about being the most interesting person in the room, just try to be the most interested person in the room.

• The interested person asks about others and leaves a good impression because people like talking about themselves.

• The interested person is genuinely curious about someone’s craft and learns a lot about how things work.

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When you’re genuinely curious about the world, when you let that curiosity guide your reading, your thinking, and your creating, you become a magnet for ideas, conversations, and opportunities. When you’re interested, you’re never boring. And when you’re interesting, the world can’t help but pay attention.

i think i hold curiosity to such a high standard in my relationships because it wipes away intellectual superiority, i know a lot of uncurious people who will watch every Oscar nominated film from the past year but will lack any type of bespoke perspective as if they swallowed their food without chewing. on the contrary, a lot of curious people i... See more