I like “what’s the most exciting thing to happen to you recently?” as a replacement/follow-up to how are you—I find it often sparks interesting things
Have you tried something like “what’s something exciting” instead? “The most exciting” would lead me down some internal flailing like “ahh geeze, the most exciting? Okay time to rank all the things that have happened”, but I could believe it works better on average.
I like “what’s the most exciting thing to happen to you recently?” as a replacement/follow-up to how are you—I find it often sparks interesting things
Have you tried something like “what’s something exciting” instead? “The most exciting” would lead me down some internal flailing like “ahh geeze, the most exciting? Okay time to rank all the things that have happened”, but I could believe it works better on average.
This likely depends on how literal the people with whom you are talking take what you say.