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Who hasn\u2019t found themselves at party, standing awkwardly by the guacamole, approximately five feet from another person doing the same? Sometimes it\u2019s just hard to know what to say to start a conversation.<\/p>\nWho hasn\u2019t found themselves at party, standing awkwardly by the guacamole, approximately five feet from another person doing the same? Sometimes it\u2019s just hard to know what to say to start a conversation.<\/p>\n
Davy Rothbart can help. In his new TED Book,\u00a0How Did You End Up Here?: The Surprising Ways Our Questions Connect Us<\/a><\/i>, Rothbart collects more than 100 of his all-time favorite questions to ask someone you\u2019ve just met, generated by people around North America whom he\u2019s only just met himself. Rothbart opens his toolbox, sharing secrets of his trade, stories from the road, and strategies for approaching people and pushing past superficialities while also taking a close look the questions themselves \u2014 the funny, strange and surprising questions we all want to ask the people around us.<\/p>\n Rothbart\u00a0\u2014\u00a0a writer, reporter and documentary filmmaker \u2014 is known for his curiosity about other people\u2019s lives. Whether it\u2019s the folks he interviews as a frequent contributor to public radio\u2019s\u00a0This American Life<\/i>, or the people he connects with through the personal notes and letters published in his annual magazine,\u00a0Found<\/i>, Rothbart has honed a unique talent for compassionately probing into the lives of strangers and drawing out surprisingly revealing stories of beauty, heartbreak and humor.<\/p>\n How Did You End Up Here? <\/i>is available for the\u00a0Kindle\u00a0<\/a>and\u00a0Nook<\/a>, as well as through the\u00a0iBookstore<\/a>. Or download the\u00a0TED Books<\/a>\u00a0app for your iPad or iPhone, and get a subscription with a new TED Book every two weeks.<\/p>\n
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