I pick up like cray when I am drunk. I know all the openers, all the teicks, and I just kill it. But when I am sober it seems mechanical and forced and it doesn't work half as well. Any one else got suggestions to change this?

Don't worry if it is mechanical. Something you are still new with, you are not comfortable and flowing, thus you look mechanical. Just hang in there, stay through the pain, and you will loosen up, and you start flowing. Getting drunk is taking the easy road, and you dont want that.

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I know the feeling. Went like this for a long time. The trick is to add your routines in everyday life. Not just when you go out. When you at the office, talking to a secretary, add a neg or two. Just put the routin into everyday and eventually it becomes part of you.

However with that advice it might change who you. More make a difference to who you are. But as long as you stay true to your values youu'l be fine. Just get used to it. Let it be part of you. But don't let it BE YOU!!! Too many people get absorbed by the game and become arrogant dicks. Seen it happen to the guy who showed it to me.

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