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The worst thing you can ask at the start of any interaction is: "How are you?" You're essentially telling the other person that the interaction will be like every other interaction. They'll most ...

I recently asked an acquaintance how she was four times in a row. Here's how to avoid getting stuck on this conversational hamster wheel. While checking in at the gym the other day, I chirped, “Hey, ...

You probably ask many of the people you interact with every day the same question: “How are you?” Yet this phrase, once a genuine inquiry, has morphed into little more than a reflexive greeting we say ...

Every encounter with another person is an opportunity to shape that relationship. The first words out of your mouth are key in establishing the goodwill we all crave. Unfortunately, too often our ...

If you would have seen Nora McInerny at her 35-year-old husband’s funeral, you might have thought she’d never looked better. That was the consensus “according to so many people,” she says, in part ...