Small talk is boring.

Small talk is boring. Big talk is illuminating.

People will rise to the level of interestingness of the interest their conversation partner takes in them.

If you're interested, the things around you will be interesting.

Everyone has an interesting thing to say, if only you're interested enough to hear it.

Big talk happens when both sides of the conversation are interested in one another.

If only one side is ready for big talk, then it will collapse to small talk (outside of heroic illumination by the one side).

Be open to big talk happening in any conversation you're in and the world will reward you with interesting things to hear.