Reading David Wygant's Always Talk To People has been a big inspiration for me all week. It's certainly a big pill to swallow, lots of concepts to tackle all at once (I might end up failing because I try to do it all in one shot), but I can already tell the difference.
Having read up on kino as well, I've been mixing meeting new people with very basic kino with fairly good results. I started using it earlier this week with my friends by gently and very naturally giving them pats on the shoulders, fist bumping, high-fives and other very innocuous gestures.
I somehow managed to remember the name of Doug the bartender and of Andrew the car shop manager, names that I usually would have forgotten within 15 seconds. I also struck a conversation with the Fedex guy, shook his hand thanking him for spending time looking into my stolen packages. Feels great.
Another adventure of mine was figure drawing a naked girl for the first time. First of all, I've always been awful at any form of artistic expression, and since this was so ingrained in my head it was a fairly uncomfortable thought. My brain was saying: "Why would you do this? You'll just be laughed at by everybody", and so I had to tell myself that nobody actually cared, and that I wasn't trying to prove anything to anybody, I was just trying something new for the first time, getting out of my comfort zone.
The night ended up going great. My friend and I had a wonderful dinner at a local bar, meeting the bartender mentioned above, then spent a couple of hours at the art studio talking to people and drawing the model. There was such a friendly atmosphere, the vast majority of attendants heavily baked and PBR copiously available.
Looking forward to trying something new again very soon!
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