Beyond Small Talk
How to Talk to an Old Person
It helps to think of them as a younger person
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6 min readNov 21, 2019
This story is part of How to Talk to Anyone, Forge’s guide to moving past the chitchat and truly connecting.
When asked to write this piece, I thought it was about talking to people older than I am: people in their eighties or nineties. Then the realization…
