Breakdown: Improving Quickly - Question about exercises and techniques

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Quote from Breakdown: Improving Quickly

Quote:"The thing is that skills like conversation skills, humor and the like are built out of the correct habits. Guys who suck at carrying a conversation don’t only suck because they don’t know what makes a good conversation (education), but they developed very poor conversational habits at young age (experience; taking action).

The way to overcome this, again, isn’t a one-hit-wonder method, but it’s giving guys exercises, tools and benchmarks so that they can develop the appropriate habits over a period of time. For instance, you, reading this right now, tell a true story about a stray dog that lasts for over 60 seconds — don’t think about it, just go — starting now…

Could you do it? Probably not. But there are exercises and techniques which you can practice, both on your own and with your friends, that will turn you into a great story-teller, will teach you to be able to improvise dynamic and exciting conversation, and help you engage with others on the fly. It just takes work and progressive, incremental education."

Hey Mark,

You mentioned in your article about exercises and techniques for developing these skills. Can you give some?

Or if anyone else knows some, and is willing to share his knowledge, I'll be grateful.