"She's Out of Your League"

You've said it a hundred times. Maybe a thousand. And every time you say it, you train your brain to freeze the next time she walks into the room.

Leagues are a myth invented by guys who are scared of women.

She's a person. She has bad breath in the morning. She picks songs she can't sing in the shower. She overthinks her own texts.

Walk over. Say something. The league dissolves the second you open your mouth.

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How to become a good storyteller.....?

Ironager

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Hey guys, this is the first thread Ive made on this forum. Been reading and learning alot and this site has helped me quite a bit.

My question is how does one become a great storyteller. In my experience it is the guy who has the best stories and knows how to make people listen to them without even trying who is able to build the best rapport, with both males and females.

I am a great listener and the whole c /f attitude has always come to me naturally, but I would really like to become the guy who is getting all the questions, instead of asking them.
I can give some pretty good one liners, sarcastic comments and so on.. but I want to be able to tell stories in such a way, that people will be captivated and will only have ears for me...

Ironager
 

"I just moved here from Florida."

That sentence contains at least five follow-up questions she WANTS you to ask. Where in Florida? What brought you here? How long have you been in the area? What do you miss? How does it compare to here?

She handed them to you on a silver platter. And you said, "Oh cool. I come here every week. I love this band. Ummm... pretty crowded tonight."

She smiled politely. Nodded. And never texted you back.

I was that guy for years. Talking too much. Listening too little. Panicking about my next sentence while she was literally feeding me the answers.

Then I found 22 rules that fixed the whole thing. Rule number one: shut up and listen. She'll tell you exactly what to say.

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McKindley

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One thing that helps is to not explain certain aspects that can be boring exposition to keep people wondering about how it all started

lets say, I don't know, you ended up in jail for whatever reason. If you ended up in jail for something boring (parking tickets?) don't explain WHY you were in jail.

you: . . . So one day I wake up in jail. . .
person you're talking to : Hold up, why were you in jail?
You: that's not important, so I'm in jail, and then. . .

Personally, I like to start off cool stories with "so one day. . . " because you can then act like whatever this crazy story is isn't strange for you. Even though it is. Like this is the average day in your life.

Skip the boring stuff that doesn't absolutely HAVE to be there, because it creates a little fun mystery.

A lot of stories are killed by too much boring stuff.

Aside from that, just make the funny/exciting parts very grand and amazing. Larger than life.
 
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