So. You might have trouble believing this. But what I'm about to say is from my experience after years in a military career as a general.
You're not on assignment. Stop that.
If you want to learn how to communicate, you're going to want to learn to care about the person that you're communicating with. You don't have to love them, or want to be their best friend, and it might not even be a long time that you know each other. But you're not looking for intel or information to file away so much as you are just getting to know the other person.
I've had friends a little like you before. They had trouble opening up, making friends, because they were all business, all the time. Different sorts, different reasons. But they began to have an easier time when they tried to say 'why might I want to talk to this person, if I wasn't on a job?'
You don't do much that isn't involved in whatever work you do, do you?
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You're not on assignment. Stop that.
If you want to learn how to communicate, you're going to want to learn to care about the person that you're communicating with. You don't have to love them, or want to be their best friend, and it might not even be a long time that you know each other. But you're not looking for intel or information to file away so much as you are just getting to know the other person.
I've had friends a little like you before. They had trouble opening up, making friends, because they were all business, all the time. Different sorts, different reasons. But they began to have an easier time when they tried to say 'why might I want to talk to this person, if I wasn't on a job?'
You don't do much that isn't involved in whatever work you do, do you?