Learn To Ask The Right Questions
Once you convince them that you’re someone they can open up to, you have to ask them the right questions.
Assumption questions are especially powerful and are when you make an assumption of someone based on an observation and see if it’s true or not. This shows them that you are really listening and causes them to instinctively want to react.
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