A few weeks ago I went on a dating / self-improvement course. It was wild, I have so much to share about it another time.
One big thing that stood out to me was what our pregaming looked like before we went on the nights out.
In my experience pregaming was always a simple affair: alcohol and loud music.
But with these guys it was totally different. The pregaming was basically:
- Before going out
- A meditation
- A human connection exercise
- Once we got out
- Improv/socialising warmup games: one word each to tell a story; start your sentence with the last word of the previous sentence; etc etc
- Compliment 5 men in 2 minutes; compliment 5 women in 2 minutes
The idea is that you get yourself into the best possible state for interacting with others, giving value, making interactions win-win. And that you start in a chill-but-social state and ramp up as you interact with more people, instead of pumping yourself to the highest possible energy, at which point the only way for your emotional state to go is down.
I liked it so much better.
