Give your audience what they want? Someone googled “how to be interesting on the phone” and found this site. But you, next person who googles this, you’re in luck! I used to work as a CSR in a call-center for a major company, where we were taught how to – professionally – sound interesting on [...]
…to become the man that man keeps telling you that you should try to smell like. But each of the five steps is really a mega-step in disguise. Tags are listed in parens after, and they’ll eventually link to all posts following that theme. 1. Introspection (introspection) Looking inward, understanding how you feel and what you [...]
I registered this domain and parked a blog up here in late 2005 / early 2006. Back then, I got the sense that I was meeting an increasing number of people who I was simply floored to meet. People who considered themselves ordinary, normal, “just me” kinds of people, who had a tremendous amount to [...]
A lot of people talk. Talking can be fun, don’t get me wrong. But doing things? Not nearly as many people do things. If you’re always reading, watching, listening, thinking – you’re consuming a lot of other people. But the moment you go outside, and especially if you go somewhere that you don’t normally go… [...]
Read the news. Read books. Read blogs. Read gossip. Read Wikipedia. Read anything. The more you know, the more you’ll put things together, the more you can talk about. The more you know when someone talks to you about something, the better you’ll be able to carry on a conversation. The best is if you [...]
The first way to be interesting is to be interested. Someone who’s interested – in whatever it is – is immediately interesting. Listen. Care. Be curious. Be intrigued. Be surprised. Take pleasure in learning whatever the person has to teach you. Very often we like to think of ourselves as self-important. We might ignore the [...]
I owe thanks to my parents, my sister, my closest friends – but more importantly, thank you to anyone I’ve ever met, spoken with, seen, heard, read, touched, known. All of you helped create this.