Assignment task: Talk to someone in the wild
In your day-to-day activities, approach someone you don't know and strike up a conversation with them. Try to make sure it is longer than 3-4 mins. Use some of the questions you framed from Part 1 of this assignment in your conversation. The kinds of questions you use will depend on who the person is (e.g. if you approach a professor, you may ask about their work rather than their favourite colour, and so on). Dig deep into your curiosity to help you keep the conversation going. AND read the person's body language to determine the strength and length of the conversation.
Write by describing your experience. Answer the following:
How did you decide who to approach?
Who did you approach?
How did the conversation go? Were there any outcomes from your chat?
How long did you chat? What was their body language telling you?
How did it feel? (awkward, fun, interesting, etc..)
What did you learn from the conversation and/or the act of approaching a stranger?