It’s not what you say…

Badboy wrote a post on his forums about how it’s not what you say, rather, it’s how you say it that’s important.

Badboy writes:
PU is not routines,PU is not canned material….
there is no way you’ll take somebody material, and be successfull as owner of material…
delivery of routines is much more important then just story-routine you say!!!
when I say delivery
I mean, control of your voice
how much you express emotions in your speech
that was what was my friend cortez was saying.
He knows how good I can bullshit, thats full interesting to listen, but again I say nothing,…
few weeks ago, I went to day2 with some girl, and talked abour croatian going to EU( politics) really most boring material…
But delivery was like I was telling how I jumped from airplane with parachite!! full OF EMOTIONS
now, here is homework for you:

take a DonJuan de Marco movie, and take a look Delivery he has!!!(I am on his level almost)
listen eminem songs…take a look how he colors his lyrics with emotions(hate-love)
watch James bond, his delivery and how cool he is, but again attracted…
work on your storytelling…..when you tell a story, it must be emotional trip for person who listen it!!!EMOTIONS, DETAILS…not boring facts!!!!
Use your fucking face to express emotions, do not play ‘stone face’….
chicks, they love emotions…

You know, I have mixed feelings about this post, especially after my recent rant about Knowing Your Material. I think Badboy brings up some good points, but is also dismissing some important things…

First of all, I am in 100% agreement that delivery is everything. If you have a bad delivery, no matter how good your material is, it’s gonna suck and you’re not gonna get anywhere. If you have great delivery, and only so-so material, you’re gonna get by just fine.

But if your material isn’t there, you’re shooting yourself in the foot.

A lot of guys who get into learning this stuff are not interesting people. Well, I take that back. That ARE interesting people, they just don’t know how to express themselves. I was out with a guy recently who I was trying to give advice to, and I was trying to figure out something he could talk about that would be interesting. I asked him what he likes to do. he said “I like to clean.”

Now, my first response was “What the fuck? How do you make that interesting?” But honestly, you can do it. If you speak passionately enough about ANYTHING, you can make it intriguing. However, if your material is solid, and you have interesting stuff to speak about, you’re stacking the deck in your favor. And if you suddenly are at a lack of something to talk about, you have a tried and tested routine to fall back on (and you know how she’s going to respond to it). That can be an incredible advantage.

So in short, I guess I agree with Badboy, but not completely. =)

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