No, really! How are you?

"How are you?" Often gets automatic answers. To truly connect, ask again with sincerity and curiosity, inviting a deeper response. How ARE you?

25. Februar 2022

I made the experience that it takes a retry or two to snap people out of mechanically answering it and seeing it as more than a rhetorical opener…to actually look up, *arrive*, and give a real answer.

It can be a surprising pattern interrupt.

And that leaves me with only one last question to ask you:

How

ARE

You?