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Comment author: TimS 03 June 2014 01:15:14AM 2 points [-]

I've found success by focusing on the appearance of sincerity of what I say. The other key insight was making sure that I was spending time trying to figure out what the other person is actually proud of, instead of what I was most interested in.

In other words, don't worry on originality - focus on saying something positive about the thing the other person is interested in.