2. Topic Selection vis-à-vis Conversations

Transcription Hi. I was hoping you would come back. I love listening. Listening is half of the conversation, isn’t it? Getting to know the person in front of you is the most important thing happening at that moment. It might be over coffee or tea, a glass of wine, medicinally, of course, a toke, medicinally, of course. Another’s humanity in their own words can be a gift. Today, I bring you some questions and thoughts on one of my favorite conversations. Tricks and strategies don’t make for a good conversation. Good questions do. What do you like talking about? What kind of things do you like people to ask you? What you are passionate about provides for a great topic. You might say: what are you crazy about? What gets you geared up? I’ll provide a short answer. For me it's music. I get lost and overwhelmed by music. It fascinates me to no end. From the strum of Mi on my acoustic guitar to James Marshall Hendrix’s electricity. Bootsy Collin’s bass, the in-a-gadda-da vida percussion solo, Queen and Paul Simon’s storytelling, the soft romantic revolution instigating voices of the Nueva Trova Cubana and Cerati’s bout with his psychoanalytic divan. It is useless to make a list. Rolling Stones magazine has a list of the 500 greatest songs of all time. They are experts. As I turn and look to my past, my list of songs could seemingly go on infinitely, as I gaze at the future, I see that song path is closer to infinite. I’m overwhelmed again. It is music and what it makes me feel and think and imagine at the same time. I’m hooked on it.  I feel something release in my brain, which then seems to get lost in the sounds. What are you passionate about? How did you realize it? Was it love at first sense? What kind of images do you use to describe it? Is there freedom there? Do you like to talk about it? I’m listening.