I realized one of my sticking points did not exist in A1, A2, A3 or C1....but in the segway between all of them. I thought you have to go from one dhv story, to a routine, to a story, so on and so on. What you need is FLOW. It doesn't have to be turned into chapters.
Some of you might have these same issues:
how do you continue on a conversation without it becoming 20 questions?
how do you avoid awkward silence?
how do you keep the flow going, without coming off as scripted or rehearsed?
Small talk.
Not about the weather, and not about her pretty hair, or where she went to school, or what she does for work.
But about things that are irrelevant; things that no one really cares about. The key is to make sure that the useless babel is either C&F, interesting, or thought provoking.
Stack it, bounce around. TALK LIKE YOU HAVE KNOWN THEM FOR A LONG TIME. Try to avoid asking questions, but if you do, make them interesting.
THEN, when the time is right you can merge into another DHV story, or game, or routine. That is where I kept going wrong.
I am a person of substance and depth. A lot of times I forget that not every conversation has to be about philosophy or religion, or politics or the environment. They can just simply be talk.
Being from scattered backgrounds, I am sure there are some intellectuals out there with the same issue.
What I thought to be hard (small talk) is actually a VERY simple concept. But it might be hard to think of things TO talk about.
That is why I created this thread. So we get some ideas of what to talk about, and how to talk about it. Also a great place to PRACTICE the small talk.
So, fellows...talk away!
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