Meaningful Conversations

And that is to contribute to conversations.

I believe that uncommon people are always contributing to conversations.

What does that mean? The opposite of contributing is taking away from conversations or pulling back or being selfish about conversations.

But I think contributing to conversations means to ask good questions and encourage people along the way.

And there was one specific person on the vote that was not contributing to any conversation.

He was always one-upping people, like telling a story and being more elaborate.

Like you would say, hey, I scuba dove in this area.

And he would say, well, I've scuba...

I've done that and did this and kind of like one-upped it.

That to me is not contributing to the conversation.

It actually is taking away from the conversation.

Or he would... degrade people.

I mean, it was brutal.

Like he was trying to prove something and maybe there's some issues there.

Obviously, there's some some deep rooted issues.

But it was it was tough for me to be on a boat with this individual for all this week and seeing how many times he wasn't contributing to conversations.

He wasn't asking good questions to hear what people had to say.

He was always trying to be heard.

And so When you're thinking about conversations or you're thinking about your dynamics when you go out along the week, think about how you can contribute to people.

Now, the funny thing is about this specific individual, we started playing games at one point, cards, because you're on a boat for a week together.

And so he ended up engaging in this game and he was doing really well.

And I was encouraging him like, hey, great job.

And he was like, I don't even know how to process this.

Like, are you making fun of me? Are you not? Now, the background that he has is probably not that way.

he was maybe made fun of or that's the way he shows affection to people.

And that is to contribute to conversations.

I believe that uncommon people are always contributing to conversations.

What does that mean? The opposite of contributing is taking away from conversations or pulling back or being selfish about conversations.

But I think contributing to conversations means to ask good questions and encourage people along the way.

And there was one specific person on the vote that was not contributing to any conversation.

He was always one-upping people, like telling a story and being more elaborate.

Like you would say, hey, I scuba dove in this area.

And he would say, well, I've scuba...

I've done that and did this and kind of like one-upped it.

That to me is not contributing to the conversation.

It actually is taking away from the conversation.

Or he would... degrade people.

I mean, it was brutal.

Like he was trying to prove something and maybe there's some issues there.

Obviously, there's some some deep rooted issues.

But it was it was tough for me to be on a boat with this individual for all this week and seeing how many times he wasn't contributing to conversations.

He wasn't asking good questions to hear what people had to say.

He was always trying to be heard.

And so When you're thinking about conversations or you're thinking about your dynamics when you go out along the week, think about how you can contribute to people.

Now, the funny thing is about this specific individual, we started playing games at one point, cards, because you're on a boat for a week together.

And so he ended up engaging in this game and he was doing really well.

And I was encouraging him like, hey, great job.

And he was like, I don't even know how to process this.

Like, are you making fun of me? Are you not? Now, the background that he has is probably not that way.

he was maybe made fun of or that's the way he shows affection to people.