I can super intense but I am also very curious. I ask questions because I am truly interested in what people do, the companies, how, when, where. I had a friend who said to me "why is it that people tell you their biggest secrets?" I tend to probe well I guess. Which sort of was part of my job on Wall Street. But as I get going, I know I am like a fisherman with a fish on the hook and I am intense. And then I like to figure out how things work, how it could be done better, as I listen.
Wow ... this is me! It always freaks my DH out that he can work with someone for over a year and when I meet them, I will have uncovered things about them he never knew in just a matter of 10 minutes. Even when I was in school and had long art classes I passed the time discovering secrets about professors. They were always shocked with how much I could uncover about them with my questions. One of my professors passed away last year and I will never forget the summer I had his class and the life story I discovered. He lived such an interesting life and definitely not one on the typical path, but also not one that he openly shared either. I just had this ability to make him feel at ease as I probed.