Making Conversations Matter!

Once in a while all of us need to "talk heart", share our restlessness, our nervousness, our successes, our joys, our downs, our griefs.

But that aside:

One tip I would give students (actually people in general) is: Make sure that most of your conversations are about subjects you are studying (or subjects that matter to you even if you're no longer a student).

If you are a science / technology student, then talk science / technology with your friends. And not airy fairy stuff 😏 : be hardcore! Discuss equations, concepts, solve problems together, take a piece of theory and come up with applications, detail it out, calculate quantities of interest, take your designs to the end.

If you are a liberal arts / humanities / arts / music student, then have most of your conversations about them. Get technical, detailed, rigorous.

If you have serious extracurricular interests, then have serious in-depth conversations about them.

And get interdisciplinary! Engineers: Go hang out with sociologists! Without their inputs, you only create more trouble! Mathematicians: Go have coffee with musicians! And pardon the cheekiness 😄, but *listen* 😁!

As of today, most of our conversations are just nonsensical: He said this, she did that, how could they be this way, I feel this way, you must feel that way 🙄 ... Just end this 😑!

Shift to meaningful conversations about subjects you are studying or serious extracurricular interests : I tell you, before you know it, these subjects will start becoming easy, you will start enjoying them, you will start seeing that they are for real. Right now most of us treat our subjects like ghosts we have to somehow handle 😁! This will change.

It's very enjoyable once you get into rhythm!

Remember: Make most of your conversations technical. Not just once or twice. Almost all conversations need to be meaningful.

And sometimes, talk about your favorite ice creams. Occasionally, that too can be quite meaningful 😁!