Thursday, January 18, 2007

How to be interesting [a must read article]

I think by following the tips written in this article seriously, we can become more interesting. By being an interesting people, we may live happier.

This is the URL of the article: http://russelldavies.typepad.com/planning/2006/11/how_to_be_inter.html by Russell Davies

And this is a comment from melanie | January 02, 2007 at 11:29 PM

"Hey, I came across this article, read it carefully and then read all comments under... and know what? all clues from the comments are much more interesting than the article itself. And that is the most intersting thing!"


A brief summary from http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifehack/how-to-be-interesting.html:
"A while ago, I tried to observe people who are interesting - they are all present themselves well and able to talk within any situation. I found they have one common trait - they know broad areas of topics. It strikes me though how the earth can they learn all those stuff? An article written by Russell Davies tells me there are ways to do it:

* Take at least one picture everyday. Post it to flickr.
* Start a blog. Write at least one sentence every week.
* Keep a scrapbook
* Every week, read a magazine you’ve never read before
* Once a month interview someone for 20 minutes, work out how to make them interesting. Podcast it.
* Collect something
* Once a week sit in a coffee-shop or cafe for an hour and listen to other people’s conversations. Take notes. Blog about it. (Carefully)
* Every month write 50 words about one piece of visual art, one piece of writing, one piece of music and one piece of film or TV. Do other art forms if you can. Blog about it
* Make something
* Read

The similarity of all those ways are to increase your scope of thinking and knowledge, by jumping out from your comfort zone of knowledge."

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