Maybe go out for coffee, or lunch, or dinner.

Well not everyone has to starve from food shortages.I'd bet those with the Guns and the Dogs just drive to the edge of town for a hearty pioneer type meal.Or hit the waters for a delicious fish dinner.

@Jimmy O'Connor outside of reading 1-3 books per week I regularly eat breakfast with brokers and take bankers out to lunch/ dinner often.

I just ate my $8-dollar Chinese buffet take-out dinner, the first eating-out expense I've had in the New Year.

Once I was at the dinner table talking, I'd ask them what their goals are.

I know single family is my starting place and I would like to move up to apartments and commercial later on but I would like to offer my undivided attention and willingness to learn o and a few dinners too.

Offer to buy them dinner.

I am calling connected investors tech support line now. the operator picked up the phone by mistake but never answered it and left it on so I can hear all their background noise.so someone picked up the phone but never answered it but in the background I hear them said, "x_name_x, ill make you dinner later" connected investors tech support.I am still on the phone with CI. listening to the background noise and it sounds like this CI number leads to someone homes house landline.so in other words. connected investors has a lot of extensions, each extension either leads to someones home landline or to a cellphone. in this case, the extension I put in leads to their kitchen lol and this is the location their suppose to give ConnectedInvestors tech support from. and you can hear them chopping up veggies in the background lol or chopping up something

Decision making with only your own thoughts might not be as effective as researching what has been done.If he/she has been working on this, but you have no timelines, come up with one.Maybe forge a closer working relationship (with this instrumental team member) maybe have dinner to lunch together (maybe on a regular basis) and both talk about your issues.Sometimes people are introverted (but talented) and some extra effort has to be made to break the ice.just my 2 cents.

This is kind of like asking for the best way to cook dinner.