I noticed that I usually enjoy talking to people with the same interests as me. With them I can talk for hours on end.
What greatly limits my enjoyment of a conversation and my ability to keep it going is when I talk to people who don’t have the same interests as me and I have to resort to small talk. The conversations just end up being so shallow and boring.
I used to not care about it and just talked to people with the same interests but now I realize that this approach has been detrimental to the development of my social skills.
Has anyone had the same problem and found a way to enjoy small talk?