I get this question all the time:
“What do I do when the conversation fizzles because I’ve run out of shit to say?”
My typical first instinctual response is to say this is complete and utter horse-shit…Depending on what age you are, you should have that many years of awesome things to talk to women about!
There is also the article I wrote with 5 simple tools you can use any time you run out of things to say.
But I have to admit that this may have been a bit egocentric and idealistic on my part.
You see, I’m a little bit of what my best friend calls, “A complete & utter Fuck-up!”
(Only a really close friend could say something like this about you and not anger you…)
But he may be right.
I am impulsive, I do things on a whim, and I often make life-altering decisions spur of the moment.
Some of these heat of the moment decisions have been great (i.e. quitting my “day job” managing strip clubs to pursue my actual dreams), some of them have been awful (deciding to eat raw oysters from a skeezy street vendor in a dirty neighborhood in Cartagena), but most of them have been bittersweet, with both good and bad stemming from these decisions.
But regardless of the outcome of my whimsical decision, one thing remains constant:
I always have great stories to tell!!
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