# Have you tried making yourself a more interesting person?

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- Author: [[austinkleon.com]]
- Full Title: Have you tried making yourself a more interesting person?
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- URL: https://austinkleon.com/2017/11/24/have-you-tried-making-yourself-a-more-interesting-person/

## Highlights
- There are many roads to becoming an interesting person, but they all involve developing your curiosity and your desire to know and understand — yourself, others, the world around you.
- You can read. You can pursue a new activity like knitting or rock climbing. You can volunteer. You can commit to asking three people a day an open-ended question about themselves and really listening to their responses. You can share your information and connections freely.
- to be “interest-ing” is to be curious and attentive, and to practice “the continual projection of interest.” To put it more simply: If you want to be interesting, you have to be interested.