Now heres something I'm really not sure about. If I talked about my ambitions I would say something along the lines of
"Well, even though playing poker full time could make me more money, I'd prefer to keep it as just a hobby because going to Grad school and becoming a teacher would be more rewarding. You know its funny because my friends are always asking me about poker and I actually find it more rewarding when I teach someone to play better at poker then when I do well myself."

Could I throw in a line such as, "maybe if your lucky, I'll teach you a few tricks" or would that just be dumb?

Also I know leader of men is a DHV but isnt wealth a DHV also? And the idea that I'd just give up wealth would be considered a DLV?

can i have some help with mine i havn't got a job its pritty boring i think the main thing that would DHV would be the musician part. but would apreaciate if you could amend this for me incase i need to use it in future

Well when i was a kid i got quite fond of pulling and drilling out plasticine teeth so a dentist seemed like a good option at the time. but in my teens music soon took over and have been playing guitar and writting music since i was 16. but now i go to college studying A levels not knowing whats around the corner.

Cheers now

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oh rite

Sound descisions are always better then taking risks.

Your story about ambitions is good, the C&F you added at the end could work, try it...some sets will take it as banter and others will take it as cocky. Youll have to experiment to figure out what type of people they are.

If you need any more help let me know

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-Ka-
"Be the same, only better."

why...

-dont you work?
-did you work with dental stuff as a kid?
-what are A levels?
-are you in a band, write or preform music solo?
-whats your favorite type of music?
-why do you think you take to music so much?
-do you see yourself turning music into a career?

Answer these for me and ill help you form a sotry out of it.

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-Ka-
"Be the same, only better."

hey ka great stuff. If you don't mind here are some I rounded up together. I'm going to go over them later tonight

Vegas Trip
That reminds me. Few weeks ago my friend invited me to go to vegas with him for the weekend for his cousin’s wedding.

We got to the wedding early. There weren’t that many people there yet. My friend introduced me to his cousin that was getting married and the soon to be wife. I also met a lot of his relatives. What I didn’t know was that I was the only white person there. The groom was Mexican and the bride was black so basically I’m the only white guy there. I felt awkward at first but after awhile I started getting to know everyone.

One of the first guys I met were the groom’s men like the best man. There was one guy that sounded just like chris tucker and he was funny as hell. He was really short and had a high voice but that didn’t matter. My friend was one of the groom’s men and he said some of the guys offered him some crack. He had a good laugh about that.

The wedding turned to be a lot of fun. I got a few drinks in me and hit the dance floor. Most of the night I was talking to this cute latino girl. We danced together for a few songs and talked a lot in between. I found out she lived about 5 hours away from me so that was kind of a bummer.


Santa Barbara/isle vista
I went up to UCSB for the weekend. I have a buddy who has his own place down there and he’ll invite me every once in awhile for the weekend. He is currently a student at UCSB and lives on his own. He is 21 so he doesn’t mind driving us.

The place to go to at UCSB for parties is Isle Vista. It is an incredible party down. There are a bunch of streets with house parties down every one of them. Mostly everyone just walks down the streets and go from party to party.

Mammoth Trip
(What's the craziest thing you have ever done while camping?) or (This place makes me want to go camping again)
That reminds me, every year we go on a lake trip. This place that became on of our favorite spots was Mammoth Pools. It’s up by Bass Lake kind of near Central California. It is honestly so peaceful there. It’s the type of place where there is no civilization. You have to drive about 2 hours on this windy road to get there.

Usually we go there around April or May. That is the best time for fishing. I also wakeboard up there too. The only bad thing is that the water is so cold. I have to wear a wetsuit. During that time there is still snow up in the mountains not fully melted yet. There are tons of rivers everywhere pouring into the lake from the melting snow.

We went backpacking one day through the woods on a trail. We brought along our dog too. About a couple of hours later we got stuck at this huge river. We decided we had to cross it so we got this big log and put it across the river. You ever seen those movies where people cross those huge logs over rivers or streams, it was kind of like that. We all got across except for our dog. We couldn't leave her behind. We tried so many things to get her across but she was so scared. We didn't know why maybe just because she hated water. So finally I just said fuck it and picked her up and carried her over. It was so hard because she kept moving around and she couldn't keep still. I finally made it across though.

Rock At the gym
(Have you ever seen any celebrities talk?) 
You’ll never believe it. I saw the Rock. He is the wrestler guy and he was in a few movies. I and my friend were working out at the gym and he tells me the rock was working out there. I didn’t believe him at first cause come on ... (pause) the Rock at my gym??? Well he points to him and I couldn’t believe it. It was actually him. Not a lot of people were talking to him. I didn’t know why maybe they didn’t want to bother him. So later on we went up to him and we talked about good workouts. He showed us a good workout for our arms. It was an awesome experience I was getting lessons from the Rock

New York Trip/ Protective cousin
("I'm kind of curious, do you like the east coast better or the west coast?") 
Well that reminds me. I went up to New York to see some family last summer. It was so fun up there. I went to go see my aunt and my 3 cousins.

The weather up there was kind of bad. It was really hot and humid. One day it was so crazy that I wok up and there was thunder and lighting and it was pouring rain but when you went outside it felt like 100 degrees!

I took out my cousins and sister to a local carnival. It was really fun. It had all the rides like the typical Ferris wheel, the huge loop roller coaster ride that goes in a loop over and over again. Later during the night, I and one of my cousin’s friends went to go get food. On our way back I noticed these two guys talking to my cousin and my little sister.

Job
(Where do you work?)
I currently work at Countrywide. I'm in an internship for a network engineer. I've been there since last summer (July 07). It's such a chill job. My managers are really easy going and are really funny. They even let me do homework and study.

Hey Wake, thx for checking out this post, glad you like it. I read the first few stories and skim'd through the others. Looks like you have story telling down well.

I only have 2 peices of advice, otherwise everything looked real good.

-Incorporate a lesson learned, moral of the story, etc into the framework of the story.

-Add a bit more humor if apropriate (this is a sticking point for my story telling to)

I may have missed these parts im exhausted, but thats my advice. Otherwise i think you touched on alot of good skills in your stories. Thanks for sharing them for others to see.

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"Be the same, only better."

Thanks I'll try to add some C+F in there.

I wrote this summary for my online dating profile


I want to get a business degree because I have always wanted to
open a business. I have been a caterer for 4 years and its great
because my job is somewhere different every time with hundreds of
new faces each time. I'm thinking of opening a business in the
catering industry, and make it easier for the caterers . I have a
dog and hes the best in the world. Hes a mix and I'm only certain
that he has pit bull in him. I'm happy that he's neutered. I like
entertaining movies. I really like zombie movies, it was something
from when I was a kid. I saw night of the living dead and it blew
my mind. There are some that are'nt good like the new Day of The
Dead. They shouldnt have made the zombies super human. It worked
for the new Dawn of The Dead but not it. I don't like country or
R&B. I listen to Indie Rock in my car. Some day I want an
airplane. You feel so free flying an airplane. I want to fly one
through the rocky mountains, the brazilian and costa rican forests,
and the african savanah. I'd like to use an airplane for my way of
transportation. I like to go camping. I want to go camping and take
a jetski and atv. Have a weekend for getting close to nature and
telling stories at a campfire. I like the outdoors. I feel my inner
cave man when I live in nature.

First off G welcome to the forums (sorry im not religeous and even i have a problem calling anyone God).

I see your profile working well as a profile or short bio on yourself, but its definatly not usable as a single DHV story. It has many topics contained within that could be turned into DHV stories.

If your intrested in getting help to convert those stories/memories into DHV material, feel free to write out or describe one or two of these stories and please this time around use paragraphs, it will make it immenslly easier to read. Thanks

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-Ka-
"Be the same, only better."

Hey,

I’m having trouble turning this into a good DHV response to “what do you do”:
I am in med school, and want to be a [specialism]. I already have a degree in some other area but I really didn’t feel like continuing in that field, so I decided to pursue something that I actually wanted to do when I was younger but I foolishly decided not to do that at the time. I am however working for the university (one day in the week) in the field I have a degree in to earn enough money to pay for med school. I am really enjoying med. school and I know I have made the right decision to switch. I have been traveling a lot in the past and the best future situation for me would be if I could combine traveling with working as a doctor in the future.

First off G welcome to the forums (sorry im not religeous and even i have a problem calling anyone God).

I see your profile working well as a profile or short bio on yourself, but its definatly not usable as a single DHV story. It has many topics contained within that could be turned into DHV stories.

If your intrested in getting help to convert those stories/memories into DHV material, feel free to write out or describe one or two of these stories and please this time around use paragraphs, it will make it immenslly easier to read. Thanks[/quote]


I should have read your first post more carefully sorry. I thought of 2 questions I remember being asked a lot.

what my major is
i am going to major in business with a dream to open my own business. I have an idea for a business in the catering/event planning industry which was inspired by my 3 years of working as a caterer-server.

what my job is
I work as a caterer to get me by while i go to school. My father was a caterer for 34 years and he was and is my boss. I like how im in a new location each time with hundreds of new faces and the sole purpose of the job is to provide a party/good time. I like how sometimes there is live music and we can eat all the classy catering food we like.

Hey Ka, amazing post man! It's really helped me to totally rethink answering typical questions.

Here's one of the stories I came up with (if you've got time I'd love a critique):

Q: what do you take at school:

I started off doing doing fine arts: making films, doing drawings, creating artwork and that was great! I did that all thorugh my first year.

And that lasted until the day I met this beautiful thai girl in an english class. And it turns out she was a business major. So I'm like screw this, all the pretty girls are in business!

We started dating, and it was great for awhile. But eventually I learned that beauty was common, and what counts are things like an adventurous personality and postive energy [straight from Mystery].

And I also learned that accounting sucks. So I broke up with the girl and went back to doing what I love, making movies.

Zwarejongen, ima use your post as an example, now trust me your not the only one doing this so please dont take it personally. Im doing this for your benifit and all the others who read this post.

Alot of our trouble with story telling is not keeping things linear. Thoughts, ideas, and conversations even do not have to follow this form, but a story should almost always be linear.

Think about anytime you have verbally told a story to someone, and forgot details or didnt keep them in a linear form, and went back to talk about something that happened before some other part that you already told.

People generally become disintrested in a story when the details and not arranged in a logical progressive order. Its a kind of incongruency, that illegitamizes the story and just makes it hard for the human brain to follow.

So for instance in Zwarejongen's post..his linear progression doesnt follow a logical timeline...

-Med school
-College degree (undergrad)
-Childhood ambitions

this should be re-arranged to be;

-Childhood ambitions
-College degree (undergrad)
-Med school

So heres my version of your story, feel free to modify it to fit your personal experience and personality.
"Well isnt it funny, as a kid we all have an idea of what we'd like to be. A pilot, doctor, dancer...I was the kid who wanted to be a doctor. But we grow up and our idea of what we need to be changes. I went to college and got a dgree doing something i didnt really want to do. So after i graduated i decided to get a job in that feild and start med school. I know i made the right choice because i really love where im at.

I love traveling and in the future i see myself traveling and working in the medical field. I want to earn a living doing what i love and be able to afford myself the lifestyle that i wana lead. Seeing the world, socializing with all kinds of intresting people...thats where i see myself."

Start yourself where it began, work through the details, and end after. Incorporate details and emotions in. Replace some of my "love"'s with other words to describe your strong emotions. Hope this helps.

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-Ka-
"Be the same, only better."

I think you've got the jist man, well done. You kept it short, incorporated some humor, preselection, formed the story in a linear manner, etc. Maybe form a second story to follow this one delving more into your artistic ambitions. Be ready for the questions that people will ask and use them to lead into more detailed stories or other stories...whatever direction you chose.

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"Be the same, only better."

Thanks mate, that helps a lot. I knew the way i had it in my head and the way i used to tell this to other people wasn't "flowing" well.