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A while ago I heared from Jim Rohn that even if you don't have had a near death experience everyone has something interesting to talk about. At the time I said to myself, hey I do have an experience that sort of qualifies as a near death experience. I had 5 days of artificial coma with some strange paranormal experience after waking up out of it.
At the time I still had a hard time conversing with people even through I had experiences that qualified as interesting. I just lacked the skill to talk about them.
I don't think that relating to other people is primarily a question of the content of conversation.
It's about emotions. It's about empathy. It's about getting out of your head.
Instead of spending time in an activity that you could tell other people about, spend more time actually talking to people and practice relating on an emotional level.
Alternatively, I just read about a veep who was told at management training to start by asking about people's families, and then talk about business matters. As a result, the people who thought she was cold and disliked them switched to thinking she was friendly and caring.