Conversations: Small Talk or Real Depth?

Conversations often happen over holiday periods when families, friends or co-workers get together. How do you do in those situations?
Do you go armed with stories you want to tell or jokes you've been saving up? Or do you go with good open ended questions to ask of others?
It's one thing to start with a question, but how about interjecting good questions late in the story or conversation?

Here are 7 good questions:

What Do you Think?
How Do you Feel?
What Will You Do?
What is Your Opinion?
What is Your Story?
What is Your Experience or Example?
What Have you Been Working On?

When everyone leaves the party, what might they be thinking of, mulling over in review?
They'll possibly think of their gaffs and wish they could take them back.

They might consider the one or two people who dominated the conversation, thinking they were "the life of the party."

or they might be appreciating the one or two well placed questions you asked which gave them the space to respond in a meaningful way.

Do you have some other good questions which might add to a conversation?

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