Summary

The article “I’ve lost my conversational mojo – can I relearn the art of small talk?” by Rhik Samadder begins with a story about one of Samadder’s friends who is meeting his work colleagues for the first time, even though he was hired six months ago. Because of the COVID-19 lockdown, he has only seen his colleagues in Zoom meetings and claims he has forgotten how to make small talk. 

Samadder admits that he, too, has forgotten and mentions how he could not respond properly when asked what he had been up to. Samadder talks to communications expert Rob Kendall, who mentions a species of bird that is near extinction and meets those of its kind so rarely that it has forgotten how to communicate with them. Kendall argues that something s...