“local lottery winner says, just buy a ticket! its that easy!”. All jokes aside, many people struggle with charisma and keeping the conversation going. I have

“local lottery winner says, just buy a ticket! its that easy!”. All jokes aside, many people struggle with charisma and keeping the conversation going. I have grown to be more charismatic with age, largely due to a mix of assertiveness training and having internal rules to keep the conversation flowing. If you can paper over the awkwardness of transitioning from an answer to one question to asking another question, and you are genuinely inquisitive so as to make a whole conversation from an answer, then these kinds of questions are a fantastic crutch. Other conversational crutches like the “FORD model” (Family, Occupation, Recreation and Dreams) can help in the event of a stalled conversation.