In general the easiest to way to make any one like you is to let them to all the talking, and sound like you ask interesting questions about their experiences, which make them and listening audience feel they are intelligent.

There are these anecdotes about Benjamin Disraeli that anybody who ever talked to him felt like they were the most intelligent person in Britain, and at times if there were a bunch people around him, they felt like they took turns being the most intelligent people in Britain.