Icebreaker

How Interesting is Your Fun Fact About You?

Have you been answering this question wrong your whole life? Maybe.

It’s crazy how you feel like you do so much but when it comes to putting it in writing, it’s really difficult to do so. When I was asked about a fun fact about myself, I couldn’t do it.

I simply had way too many things to choose from!

Jokes aside, what makes something as fun? Interesting? It’s all relative and subject to individual interpretation. These words are qualified by the individuals in the room. Is a summer internship at X company considered interesting? An impulsive trip to Disney? A pet peeve you have? What about getting co-authorship on a research paper (at the undergraduate level)? Or recovering from a broken limb four weeks earlier than expected?

Is part of what makes something interesting or ‘fun’ the mystery of it? If everyone knows about it, it’s trivial and bloated. If no one knows about it it’s obscure and inane. From the two sentences I’ve written, it looks like I’m onto something. I’ll propose it in a decent drawing below.

I’ll call it the Curve of Interesting (because why not?)

Take this info and network with confidence!

BONUS: An integration of the curve will provide a good estimate as to how wide a net one casts when the ‘fun fact’ is deployed during an icebreaker exercise or networking event.