| I myself am studying to be a professional actor, and it certainly does help your game. Where it will really help you is improving your ability to think on your feet. This is because alot of acting programs train you in the art of improvisation. Normally you are taught how to improvise an entertaining dramatic scene, but I've found that the same techniques used to accomplish this can be useful in improvising an entertaining conversation. After all, the conversations we have with people are improvised. Since I'm here, I may aswell give a crash course in the techniques I mentioned.
Extending- In the scene, the other improvising actor will say a line. Extending is choosing an idea or topic embedded in their line and elaborating on it. It is to give more detail to the chosen topic or idea. For example, a character might say, "Sorry I'm late, my son fell ill and I had to take him to the doctor, where we waited for 90 MINUTES!"You could extend on their lateness and say, "You're always late! This is the fourth time this week. Are you avoiding me or something?" You could extend on the sick child and say, " That kid is always sick. What do you feed him." Or you could mention that the doctors are too full these days, due to the current pandemic of crabs. Mastering the technique of extending is so useful when talking to women. You choose one sub topic or idea from their line and extend on it, either with a funny comment or a question related to it. Do this to every line they say, and you'll never run dry on conversation.
There are other acting techniques aligned with the game, but it would take too long to into. Extending is the most useful one though.
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