I genuinely hope you will.

liz g: I know – if you want to see expertise ask me some ANTM trivia.

m: that’s a really great point. The key is the ability to converse intelligently about something and come off as genuine. Asking a true enthusiast about their experience is a great way to make your interviewer feel special It’s the interviewer who isn’t an enthusiast but wants you to talk about something that sounds interesting who worries me.

So even if you’re talking about “working up to a 5k” but seem to love the process, or “just getting into yoga” and seem excited about it, I think that goes a long way. And if the person you’re talking to is much more experienced you can always turn it around and start asking him or her about it – people love to talk about their own hobbies, and it’s going to be a more memorable conversation than the interviewer had with the last person in your chair, or the next.

I’m sure there are some type-A lunatics that will look down on you for listing yoga without having actually run your own studio at some point, but they’ll find other insane reasons to reject you too, so whatever. Some people will hate you for no good reason – that’s just a part of interviewing.

That’s my perspective as a fellow 2L know-nothing, anyway.

I agree that so many people have breadth but lack depth…though sadly for them it may not just be on the Interests line..

It’s good to think about things like this. It’s so easy to take on so many things, and so tempting. I think you’re already pretty darn good at many of those things above, good enough to easily fill the resume line, but in the game of life we all have our own expectations for being a rockstar…and it’ll be fun to see how you get to that stage in whichever of those areas you pick.