How To Have A Successful Conversation

Exchanging experiences and opinions can be very interesting and enriching!

Sometimes it only takes one conversation to be successful. Various tips can help you have a fruitful, engaging  conversation  . Read on to learn more about it.

How to have an enriching conversation

If you want to have successful conversations with other people in the future, you should consider: the more you know yourself, the better and more interesting your conversations with others will be.

Self-discovery is the first step in order to feel safe and to be able to bring your own opinion into an enriching conversation.

Then you will find various tips that can help you with this.

1. Surround yourself with people you can learn from

If you want to make your conversations more interesting, you need to surround yourself with stimulating people who you can learn from. You can decide for yourself which people are good for you and can teach you interesting things.

Choose your company well, because this way an enriching exchange can take place.

2. Listen honestly

If you’re not really listening, it will be difficult to have interesting conversations. After all, you will always talk about yourself and not even hear other people’s interesting opinions.

A conversation is about exchanging ideas, getting to know other points of view and learning about other people’s knowledge. If it’s only about yourself, you don’t need an interlocutor.

You can learn a lot from others through active listening.

3. Follow the natural rhythm of the conversation

It’s not always as easy as it sounds. You may not find the right time to get rid of your opinion, you may talk too much, or you may not speak at all. You feel insecure and prefer to be silent.

Try to find a natural balance. You shouldn’t say too much or too little, and don’t be afraid to be honest about your opinion.

4. Adjust yourself to the other person

Maybe you are talking about a very technical topic and no one understands what you are saying. Put yourself in the shoes of your interlocutor. Perhaps you can express your knowledge in a way that is easy for everyone to understand. Not everyone is an expert on your favorite subject.

The conversation should be understandable and interesting for everyone. Only in this way can a conversation be enriching for all participants. 

5. If necessary, talk about yourself

Sometimes people are afraid to talk about themselves. This can be a protective mechanism or it can also happen if you think that the others are not interested in your private life. However, your own experience can often be very enriching!

• If you think you have stories or thoughts that go particularly well with the conversation, do n’t keep them to yourself.
• In this way, you can make an important contribution to the conversation and enable others to learn through your personal experience.

Be natural, listen, adapt to the level of your interlocutors and learn to take turns exchanging ideas. So you can have successful and interesting conversations. Learn from the impressions and experiences of other people and at the same time observe their facial expressions, which underline what has been said.

You, too, reveal a lot about yourself through gestures and body language!

Be open to meet new, interesting people  and have enriching conversations with them!