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Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. You could spend the hours before a date obsessing over your hair, makeup, or outfit. Or you could channel ...

"How are you?" is the lowest-hanging fruit in the tree of caring questions, and it's the one that will give you the most untruthful answers. It's a safe, polite inquiry, but also a bit mundane.