So you want to be interesting huh? Chances are if you are trying to be - you've failed. While there might still be hope for you, know that during the process you may have to lose all of your friends, lose contact with your family and/or sacrifice any principles you thought you held. It's not about you anymore - it's about who you want to be, and what you must do to get there.
Coffee. Don't like it? Think it stains your teeth or makes your breath bad? Makes you jumpy? Rather drink something with taste like OJ or some other juice? Doesn't matter. You need to be on your coffee game. You need to be seen walking into the office coffee in hand. You need to be seen in the meeting with a dramatic pause of two because you need to sip your coffee. Oh so it's the weekend eh? Then you need to step it into overdrive. Two words: (four bracelets) coffee shop. Need to spend ~ 30% of your weekend in the shop working hard on your next novel or studying for your preferred professional standardized exam.
Troubled past/daemons. Pretty much self explanatory yet needs to be explicitly stated because if you don't have this then you really aren't going to make much progress. The good thing is that the past is an always evolving status of being. Today is tomorrow's past. If Jean Valjean can create a new life and completely deny his past you can just as easily create relationship/familial/professional strafe to such a level that a few years from now it will become the deamons that make you intersting. Make it happen.
Cigarettes. They're cool. I've addressed this in many a prior post, but I would be amiss if I did not belabor the subject. Buy a pack. Buy a lighter. Have them on the ocld night when you can step out of the pub to look into the street as the cars pass; look into the people's faces and they go nowhere. It's no longer interesting to smoke a pack a day - but it will forever be interesting to be on a busy street, lighting up and really taking it all in while the masses run no where.
Solemn. The interesting thing about this attribute is that if applied broadly, it would result in people being outright boring and silent. But amongst a pack of sheeple - this attribute is interesting. Imagine this picture if you will. Coffee on table. You realize he has some real deamons that he will forever run from, but never outrun. Smoking a cigarette silently. Thinking. Not speaking. Yup.
Layers. Don't think the fashion game is not involved in this. You must wear layers. While this might partially confine the feasibility of interesting people to the east coast of the US and Europe (yes) - it is what it is. It matters how much you want it. Do you want it? You need layers. You need dark clothe layers. You need the understated jeans. You need the understated shoes. You need a very worn t-shirt, the hooded sweatshirt and the jacket. You need layers man. It needs to be interesting and definitely not clean. Stop washing your clothes.
Busy/not available. Are you the guy who is always available and ready to hang out whenever wherever?! Stop. Stop. Stop. Your availability is inversely proportional to being interesting so stop. There is a multifaceted reason for this - but it comes down to two things: if people see you alot, you are more well known and almost uninteresting by definition, and two: people don't want to hang out with someone that they can hang out anytime they want to. Why? BECAUSE ITS DAMN UNINTERESTING.
Ignorant? Yes. Ignorant. That is - ignorant to things most Americans are in to and things that are commonly discussed. It goes something like this: "I'm not sure exactly what happened with the fiscal cliff - but I do know that Haiti is still suffering under the same level of corruption as they were before the colonists left." Another common example is typically the "no I didn't see the movie but I read the book," but this line of commentary is possibly overused in the current sense. A good response to topical conversation from someone who is interesting would be "Nah, I don't really know much about that..." and just let it trail off. It's honest. It's interest. It could be you with enough practice.
Well I can't do it for you, but this should be a good start so get out there and alienate your friends for the sake of being interesting. It will pay off.
Coffee. Don't like it? Think it stains your teeth or makes your breath bad? Makes you jumpy? Rather drink something with taste like OJ or some other juice? Doesn't matter. You need to be on your coffee game. You need to be seen walking into the office coffee in hand. You need to be seen in the meeting with a dramatic pause of two because you need to sip your coffee. Oh so it's the weekend eh? Then you need to step it into overdrive. Two words: (four bracelets) coffee shop. Need to spend ~ 30% of your weekend in the shop working hard on your next novel or studying for your preferred professional standardized exam.
Troubled past/daemons. Pretty much self explanatory yet needs to be explicitly stated because if you don't have this then you really aren't going to make much progress. The good thing is that the past is an always evolving status of being. Today is tomorrow's past. If Jean Valjean can create a new life and completely deny his past you can just as easily create relationship/familial/professional strafe to such a level that a few years from now it will become the deamons that make you intersting. Make it happen.
Cigarettes. They're cool. I've addressed this in many a prior post, but I would be amiss if I did not belabor the subject. Buy a pack. Buy a lighter. Have them on the ocld night when you can step out of the pub to look into the street as the cars pass; look into the people's faces and they go nowhere. It's no longer interesting to smoke a pack a day - but it will forever be interesting to be on a busy street, lighting up and really taking it all in while the masses run no where.
Solemn. The interesting thing about this attribute is that if applied broadly, it would result in people being outright boring and silent. But amongst a pack of sheeple - this attribute is interesting. Imagine this picture if you will. Coffee on table. You realize he has some real deamons that he will forever run from, but never outrun. Smoking a cigarette silently. Thinking. Not speaking. Yup.
Layers. Don't think the fashion game is not involved in this. You must wear layers. While this might partially confine the feasibility of interesting people to the east coast of the US and Europe (yes) - it is what it is. It matters how much you want it. Do you want it? You need layers. You need dark clothe layers. You need the understated jeans. You need the understated shoes. You need a very worn t-shirt, the hooded sweatshirt and the jacket. You need layers man. It needs to be interesting and definitely not clean. Stop washing your clothes.
Busy/not available. Are you the guy who is always available and ready to hang out whenever wherever?! Stop. Stop. Stop. Your availability is inversely proportional to being interesting so stop. There is a multifaceted reason for this - but it comes down to two things: if people see you alot, you are more well known and almost uninteresting by definition, and two: people don't want to hang out with someone that they can hang out anytime they want to. Why? BECAUSE ITS DAMN UNINTERESTING.
Ignorant? Yes. Ignorant. That is - ignorant to things most Americans are in to and things that are commonly discussed. It goes something like this: "I'm not sure exactly what happened with the fiscal cliff - but I do know that Haiti is still suffering under the same level of corruption as they were before the colonists left." Another common example is typically the "no I didn't see the movie but I read the book," but this line of commentary is possibly overused in the current sense. A good response to topical conversation from someone who is interesting would be "Nah, I don't really know much about that..." and just let it trail off. It's honest. It's interest. It could be you with enough practice.
Well I can't do it for you, but this should be a good start so get out there and alienate your friends for the sake of being interesting. It will pay off.
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ReplyDeleteInteresting thing about being interesting is that it is not a linear function, it is a threshold function. Say you know N number of people; it is not necessary that ration r of that set of N people finds you interesting, you just need to break a threshold of N' people who find you interesting. If you know 20 people and 10 think you're interesting - you're interesting. if you know 40 people and still only 10 people find you interesting - you're still interesting. How to get there - the numbers game - increase your chances, find friends, sign up on facebook and just accept, accept all day long. See, the more people you know, the more stories you know, the more things will rub off of you and experience and stories you accumulate with one subset S of N will become "interesting" to all other subsets S' of N mutually exclusive to S. Thus, by making N very very large, you are significantly increasing the chances that there are many such subsets S' where size of S' >= N' - the interesting threshold.
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