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I was writing about being an interesting person, not being an interesting conversationalist. See the comment I edited in: "I want this article to focus more on being an interesting person, rather than being an interesting conversationalist. Some ideas about conversations slipped in here, but I'll probably shift them over to the article on conversation when I get around to writing it"
Many people have told me that the think it is cool that I dance, in contrast no-one told me they thought it was cool that I played role playing games, back when I did it, except for people who engaged in that hobby as well. You can definitely get people to value you more by teaching people a few moves of Salsa and I've used it to get a few dates on Tinder.
Jim's advice about telling stories is pretty good, I'll include it if I write an article about it.
Could you clarify this distinction? Someone is viewed as interesting if they manage to present an interesting image of themselves, and conversation is one of the main ways in which we do present an image of ourselves to others (other ways including writing, public speaking, and physical appearance/demeanor).
So distinguishing "being an interesting person" from "being an interesting conversationalist" sounds odd to me, since a very large percentage of our interesting-ness comes from being an interesting conversationalist (or some of those other things like being an interesting writer or public speaker, but I'm guessing you wouldn't include those either?).
I'm guessing you're defining "interesting" as something like "interesting is having done unusual things", but even there you only become interesting to others if you're successful at telling others about those things.
Sorry, but I'm actually not going to clarify this distinction. Getting this distinction right matters very little to me. I'll put some content in one article and some in the other article based on my own subjective opinion and if someone feels that something better belongs in the other article, well tough luck.
That's fair. :)