The easiest way to create a kind of attraction between you and a girl is small talk. And the fastest way to kill the attraction between you and a girl is also small talk. All my life, I thought I knew small talk. All my life, I practiced small talk, and I believed my strength was small talk. If you had come to me some time ago and we talked by coincidence, I would have kept talking without shutting up—I’d talk to you about the weather, current events, hobbies… But the problem is that I was never able in my life to create any attraction between me and any girl, and because I was stupid, I didn’t notice that the girl—or anyone in general—who was talking to me was only waiting for when they could leave and go on their way…