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Then bring your A game to every conversation. Most people are interesting, they just need steering towards their subject of interest.
I think you have to be pretty open to new things for this to be true, a lot of people will shut down and think certain topics are boring, art for example. You kind of have to force yourself to find those things interesting for a while before everything seems interesting.
Oh my sweet summer sunshine. It's not other people's jobs to do your emotional labor for you.
You're kinda confirming my pet theory that the "I don't do small talk" people are all cunts