What's been the highlight of your week? What’s a passion project you’re working on? How have you been finding balance in your life lately? Start asking deeper questions! Everyone is tired of the surface level BS.

I call this shortening the relationship runway. You know how we do that? By either being strategically vulnerable or asking questions about the other person that are deeper than just, how are you? For instance, you've heard me when I start a conversation, I'll say to you, hey man, what's going on? Like, what's been keeping you busy, dude? How's your summer? I'm asking you questions. What's been keeping you busy? You're going to answer that question, right? You're going to answer that to the best of your ability. You're going to tell me what's been keeping you busy. That's super cool. But then if I ask you, Mike, how are you? You're going to say, I'm tired. I don't want to talk. What's been keeping you busy does more than, how are you?