Me: Hey have you heard anyone talking about me? I thought i heard your friends say Freddy and guitar in the same sentence, which is my name and what I do.

HB:(some form of no)

Me: yeah, i guess if you were talking about other people you'd probably be talking crap about somebody uninteresting, which is what you'll usually find in this school, i mean, have you met anyone interesting this year?(anchoring the word interesting)

than i wouldn't know where to go

The opener isn't, however, field test it to see what happens. And you don't need to tell then you play guitar, just asking that implies you do.

The anchoring is weak however. Just by saying interesting and pointing to yourself, thats hardly enough to associate you with interesting. Perhaps by talking about something interesting, such as guitar, and then explaining how well you play, you can anchor better.

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-Duke

thanks for the advice, and I never thought about the fact that something more interesting than the word 'interesting', would generate more powerful feelings that could be anchored.

could future plans be used to my advantage or would they come off as meaningless? i've only played two shows but I'm supposed to be getting paid this summer to play guitar and mandolin for a bunch of people while we traveled to festivals on a hippy bus, i was told vaguely, but also i was offered, and i complied, to a volunteering experience of teaching children how to create music. are these examples of what my life is going to be like useful?