Explore the world around you and broaden your interests

Once a month, do something you’d never dream of doing.
Participate in a sport, go to an exhibition, hear a lecture on something totally out of your experience. You get 80% of the right lingo and insider questions from just one exposure.

Turn to a newspaper section that you hardly ever read.
This will familiarise you with other worlds so that you can soon discuss anything with anybody, no matter how little you have in common.

Subscribe to monthly magazines that serve a variety of different interests.

If you are among people with different jobs, learn about the hot issues in their fields.
Every industry has burning concerns the outside world knows little about.