This was a question my uncle asked my husband today when they met for the first time. It is such an interesting question.
They had a really interesting conversation that I found to be quite unusual but an experience worth sharing as I think it was a really engaging and fulfilling conversation for both parties. And I think this is often overlooked.
It started out while on a walk to the CYCA at Rushcutters Bay for the start of he Sydney to Hobart yacht race. My uncle lives in Germany, with his German wife. It’s been about ten years since I last saw then in Germany, and it is twenty since they were last in Australia.
Now my uncle is definitely a conversationalist.
His opening question was … ‘So tell me a bit about yourself’.
This is a question so rarely asked, and it’s really interesting the response you give. And where it leads.
Mark came to learn many things about my uncle that I’d never known, as did I.
Once of the best things about conversations is how they expand your mind. And this is why I love them. I love sharing and ex changing ideas and conversing on a plethora of topics because it inevitably leads to better and often bigger less constrained ideas.
I’ve often run workshop questions around the concept of what it would look like tomorrow if you woke up an a miracle had occurred. But I think I’m going to try on this wish for size for a while.
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