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Could you go a whole day without talking about yourself?


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I'm reading the book "How to Win Friends and Influence People", an older but solid common sense advice book. People LOVE to talk about themselves, and one of the pieces of advice it mentions is, let people talk about themselves and they will like you.

We all do it every day, and I'm as guilty as the next person. Could be any conversation about anything, but the first thing that pops into my head will be something about how it relates to my life or how it affects me. Stemming from that, could you go a whole day without talking about yourself?

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so...let's say your friend says "man I took the best dump this a/m!"

if you responded, "dude, me too! It was fantastic!"

would that constitute talking about yourself??

sure, you related it to yourself and your dump. instead of asking him what shape, how it felt, etc, you just talked about yourself.

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I'm reading the book "How to Win Friends and Influence People", an older but solid common sense advice book. People LOVE to talk about themselves, and one of the pieces of advice it mentions is, let people talk about themselves and they will like you.

We all do it every day, and I'm as guilty as the next person. Could be any conversation about anything, but the first thing that pops into my head will be something about how it relates to my life or how it affects me. Stemming from that, could you go a whole day without talking about yourself?

On a typical day, I rarely talk about myself.

Except for when I get on the huddle.

Like I'm doing right now.

I'm...I...I ... dammit!

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I'm reading the book "How to Win Friends and Influence People", an older but solid common sense advice book. People LOVE to talk about themselves, and one of the pieces of advice it mentions is, let people talk about themselves and they will like you.

We all do it every day, and I'm as guilty as the next person. Could be any conversation about anything, but the first thing that pops into my head will be something about how it relates to my life or how it affects me. Stemming from that, could you go a whole day without talking about yourself?

Only if I wasn't around other people or on a msg board. :p (Vanity is a sin, I know, but stupidity isn't? Go figure!)

The only way to get me from talking about myself it to talk about one of my other favorite subject. :D (Prospecting, metal detecting, sports, women's anatomy!)

(Or if you are a woman, flash boobs!) A former GF of mine used to flash her breasts at me everytime we were about to have an argument. I didn't remember until about a half an hour later we were going to argue. By then she would say, "We did, you won., you're right." And I'd go away happy.

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