Seeing as a Child / Curiosity

For this week I tried to "see/hear with the eyes of a child" in order to gain curiosity in a conversation. In general I really liked this weeks reading because I often think about these sort of things when I'm having a conversation with people. The thing I had the hardest with about curiosity is not that I wasn't curious about people when I was listening to them, but rather that I feel sometimes just saying "ask me more" sounds insincere, and people don't feel as open to sharing. This week I tried to use different things but found myself using mostly "really?" as my continuing question.


In one particular conversation I had with someone I really tried to follow the guidelines from the reading. I found myself getting curious of how the person was choosing the way they phrased things. Also it was someone I wasn't all that familiar with, so I found myself wondering about their past and how they have ended up the way they are today. I found it easy to ask them about why they did certain things, or about things I didn't know about them already. But when it came to the parts in the conversation where they were talking about things that solely relied on the present, it was a lot harder to figure out how to stay immediately curious and focused and to ask them how to go on. Often times in conversations people aren't just telling you their feelings, instead, it's about normal day-to-day things and that's when I get the most stuck in a conversation.