My Golden Rule for Conversation

My golden rule for conversation has become: don't volunteer conversation about anything I find interesting. It's a near-infallible rule that the other person will not be interested.

Instead, I just let the other person lead the conversation, and try to induce or feign interest in that. If I do volunteer conversation, it's always on a topic I don't find interesting. That seems the safest option.

There's a handful of people to whom this policy doesn't apply. But only a handful.

I wonder how many people are in the same boat?