I have encountered a wide variety of people in my life and, as far back as I can remember, I have always found people very interesting. A teacher I had many years ago introduced me to the Dale Carnegie book 'How to Win Friends and Influence People'. Ever since then I have enjoyed asking people I've met, "Tell me about yourself. You appear to be a very interesting person." I found that people are very anxious to tell me about themselves - and tell me their stories.