Data point: If you did this with me, then you’d need to be pretty careful not to sound defensive. I tend to shrug, grin, and make a fairly non-specific response because usually when people ask that question, I’m just trying to get them off my back. If you wanted to me to try and give you a thoughtful answer, you’d want to convey curiosity, even prefacing the question with ’I’m curious...”
Yeah, my actual script there wouldn’t work very well. I didn’t bother trying to do a better one because it’d be incredibly context-dependent, and any “good” specifics I gave wouldn’t really work anyway.
Data point: If you did this with me, then you’d need to be pretty careful not to sound defensive. I tend to shrug, grin, and make a fairly non-specific response because usually when people ask that question, I’m just trying to get them off my back. If you wanted to me to try and give you a thoughtful answer, you’d want to convey curiosity, even prefacing the question with ’I’m curious...”
Yeah, my actual script there wouldn’t work very well. I didn’t bother trying to do a better one because it’d be incredibly context-dependent, and any “good” specifics I gave wouldn’t really work anyway.