In the middle of a text conversation, when you feel like it's getting a little dry, send someone a voice memo instead.

If they're teasing you, shake it up by sending a voice memo back saying,

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Mistake number one, playing games about when to text back.

Now let's say Monkey receives a text. Huh, it's from George.

But instead of texting George back and having a conversation, monkey thinks, no, I am going to wait.

And George is going to see how busy I am, how important I am and how attractive I am. But the problem is, George is going to see how busy I am, and how important I am and how attractive I am.

But the problem is, George is by his phone right now.

She could have had a message with him and carried on the momentum and ridden that wave.

Instead, she waited five or six hours to text back George, who incidentally was no longer curious. Now look, I'm not saying

that when someone texts you should always be by your phone waiting to text them back,

but if someone happens to text you in a moment where you're not doing anything and it's organic

to reply to them right away, why not use the momentum of that moment and have a conversation?

If five, ten minutes later you need to go, that's fine. That's where you can be busy in an authentic

way. But don't play games of making someone wait just to look cool. Number two, obsessively sticking

to text as the form of communication. I think of

different mediums, whether they're texts, pictures, voice memos, phone calls, face times,

all as having a kind of energy bar. And the more you do them, the more that energy bar gets depleted and we start to get

diminishing returns from that thing. If we over text, it doesn't matter how quirky or fun or witty

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