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	<title>Comments on: How to Test-Drive Friends and Irritate People</title>
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	<description>Tim Ferriss's 4-Hour Workweek and Lifestyle Design Blog</description>
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		<title>By: Dave Myers</title>
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		<dc:creator>Dave Myers</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:03:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Brilliant.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Brilliant.</p>
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		<title>By: Sean</title>
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		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:25:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Tim,
I enjoy the post. I have a sneaking suspicion many people are assuming you set out to outwardly perform these actions all on a first date and that seems to stir them some-what.

The way I&#039;ve interpretted your post, and I&#039;m hoping I am correct, is that these are a rough guide to common situations that could arise and you&#039;re simply offering advise for said situations to be illustrated by example. Which I think is fine, as I&#039;m sure there&#039;d not be many if any other ways of detailing such a thing.

That said, I&#039;m sure you&#039;re not incinuating that all of these generic examples of methods, once implemented into your own style to trigger specific reactions, are bombarded onto the subject in a matter of a couple of days. More so, over the course of say a month or two and in the most subtle ways possible. 

More over, the idea isn&#039;t to go out of your way to push the subject (and I know it sounds horrible referring to another human being you&#039;re getting to know as a &#039;subject&#039; but it&#039;ll work for now) into key situations or reactionary circumstances, but rather more subtly without making any changes what so ever to your regular routine, usual go-abouts or even personality. Something as small as the slightest change in facial expression alone can tell you alot in particular situations. I myself tend to test people when I meet them, but it&#039;s by no means obvious in any way shape or form.

Conversational triggers, wording in your dialogue, body language, facial expressions. Just simple, little things that can help you pick up on microreactions. These are generally pretty intuitive upon the first few greetings, but come a longer length of time your methods (interpretted in one&#039;s own way and taken on board in addition to their own ways) I can see heding some interesting results if done correctly.

Cheers mate.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tim,<br />
I enjoy the post. I have a sneaking suspicion many people are assuming you set out to outwardly perform these actions all on a first date and that seems to stir them some-what.</p>
<p>The way I&#8217;ve interpretted your post, and I&#8217;m hoping I am correct, is that these are a rough guide to common situations that could arise and you&#8217;re simply offering advise for said situations to be illustrated by example. Which I think is fine, as I&#8217;m sure there&#8217;d not be many if any other ways of detailing such a thing.</p>
<p>That said, I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;re not incinuating that all of these generic examples of methods, once implemented into your own style to trigger specific reactions, are bombarded onto the subject in a matter of a couple of days. More so, over the course of say a month or two and in the most subtle ways possible. </p>
<p>More over, the idea isn&#8217;t to go out of your way to push the subject (and I know it sounds horrible referring to another human being you&#8217;re getting to know as a &#8217;subject&#8217; but it&#8217;ll work for now) into key situations or reactionary circumstances, but rather more subtly without making any changes what so ever to your regular routine, usual go-abouts or even personality. Something as small as the slightest change in facial expression alone can tell you alot in particular situations. I myself tend to test people when I meet them, but it&#8217;s by no means obvious in any way shape or form.</p>
<p>Conversational triggers, wording in your dialogue, body language, facial expressions. Just simple, little things that can help you pick up on microreactions. These are generally pretty intuitive upon the first few greetings, but come a longer length of time your methods (interpretted in one&#8217;s own way and taken on board in addition to their own ways) I can see heding some interesting results if done correctly.</p>
<p>Cheers mate.</p>
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		<title>By: Cat</title>
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		<dc:creator>Cat</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 03:18:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@Tim
:in reponse to Tim&#039;s last comment 
&quot;From a recent email from a friend:

I’ve learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles four things:

a rainy day, the elderly, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.&quot; 

I would up the ante on this one: a SNOWY day, (rain shmain! lol), ditto on the luggage and elderly...Christmas tree lights though? How about losing your keys or something? 

I think if one is getting just as bent out of shape as their tree lights...that&#039;s a sure fire sign of insanity. 

Hell just waiting in line at the DMV is a test of character and emotional fortitude.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@Tim<br />
:in reponse to Tim&#8217;s last comment<br />
&#8220;From a recent email from a friend:</p>
<p>I’ve learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles four things:</p>
<p>a rainy day, the elderly, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.&#8221; </p>
<p>I would up the ante on this one: a SNOWY day, (rain shmain! lol), ditto on the luggage and elderly&#8230;Christmas tree lights though? How about losing your keys or something? </p>
<p>I think if one is getting just as bent out of shape as their tree lights&#8230;that&#8217;s a sure fire sign of insanity. </p>
<p>Hell just waiting in line at the DMV is a test of character and emotional fortitude.</p>
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		<title>By: kees</title>
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		<dc:creator>kees</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 18:38:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi tim,

“Leid een rijk leven zonder veel te doen” and “Geweldig! Dit boek zal je leven veranderen. -New York Times” 

the dutch to english translation is: Lead a rich life without doing much  and GReat! This book will change your life NYT.

Thanks for the post
greetings kees.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi tim,</p>
<p>“Leid een rijk leven zonder veel te doen” and “Geweldig! Dit boek zal je leven veranderen. -New York Times” </p>
<p>the dutch to english translation is: Lead a rich life without doing much  and GReat! This book will change your life NYT.</p>
<p>Thanks for the post<br />
greetings kees.</p>
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		<title>By: Melissa</title>
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		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2009 03:54:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I don&#039;t actually understand how people found these tips so intensely &quot;cruel&quot; and awful and deceiving. It&#039;s not like you&#039;re actually screwing someone over, you&#039;re nicely taking them out to dinner, happened to realize that it was 30 minutes later, will probably find something else fun and romantic to do to kill the time and then go to dinner. Calm down! You&#039;re not screwing them of money and seeing how they react. It&#039;s just a simple little scenario to see whether the date would freak out and act blatantly annoyed about the extra 30 minutes you&#039;ll godforbid have to waste before eating. It&#039;s a completely acceptable tiny problem, just so that you don&#039;t go falling in love with a personality that turns out to not be real. 

I completely understand, because I dated a guy who was the most charming adorable thing for the first month or two during that happy honeymoon stage, and all of a sudden after 3 months little raging fits would pop out the second things went wrong. Objects flying and all. Turned out he was a complete brat who was good at hiding it in the beginning, and he would have been the perfect person to test these sort of scenarios on and I wouldn&#039;t have had to waste 4 months on Mr. Anger Management. We actually got kicked out of Victoria&#039;s Secret because he had a fit in the store about not being allowed in the dressing rooms. Thank you for the tips, it appears I need to tweak my psycho radar a bit and these will definitely help.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I don&#8217;t actually understand how people found these tips so intensely &#8220;cruel&#8221; and awful and deceiving. It&#8217;s not like you&#8217;re actually screwing someone over, you&#8217;re nicely taking them out to dinner, happened to realize that it was 30 minutes later, will probably find something else fun and romantic to do to kill the time and then go to dinner. Calm down! You&#8217;re not screwing them of money and seeing how they react. It&#8217;s just a simple little scenario to see whether the date would freak out and act blatantly annoyed about the extra 30 minutes you&#8217;ll godforbid have to waste before eating. It&#8217;s a completely acceptable tiny problem, just so that you don&#8217;t go falling in love with a personality that turns out to not be real. </p>
<p>I completely understand, because I dated a guy who was the most charming adorable thing for the first month or two during that happy honeymoon stage, and all of a sudden after 3 months little raging fits would pop out the second things went wrong. Objects flying and all. Turned out he was a complete brat who was good at hiding it in the beginning, and he would have been the perfect person to test these sort of scenarios on and I wouldn&#8217;t have had to waste 4 months on Mr. Anger Management. We actually got kicked out of Victoria&#8217;s Secret because he had a fit in the store about not being allowed in the dressing rooms. Thank you for the tips, it appears I need to tweak my psycho radar a bit and these will definitely help.</p>
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