What tip made you a million times better at flirting?

If you're in a group of friends, new or old, find a natural opportunity to hang back.

Someone who's interested in you will take notice and take the opportunity to talk with you in

private. Now, this isn't full proof, but it'll at least give you the opportunity to feel for

any chemistry between you.

Be wary of one-sided conversations. If your responses are being met with mostly yips and uh-huh, and nothing without meat, it's probably not going well. People love to talk about

themselves. You should ask open-ended questions that let them ramble. If you actively listen,

Google it,

there's videos that help, and occasionally relate back to earlier conversations. Is this the same girl you were telling me about with the big earrings, for example? Or that's the place where

Jim fell off his chair, right? You'll be a really good listener and people will love talking at you,

sometimes too much. This advice is literally from the Dale Carnegie book,

How to Win Friends and Influence People, if you'd like follow-up reading. I remember going on

nine dates with a girl who just got out of a long relationship and just wanted to be friends,

to which I said, okay, cool, let's hang out then. One night she was dropping me off at my place

after a movie.

She turned the car off, put her arm on my headrest as we chatted before I got out. I was fully in

the mindset that we were just friends, so I shook her hand, good night. R-I-P me. Yep, good at flirting

means also recognizing when the other party isn't receptive.

If they're answering briskly and killing conversation, cut your lasses and move on.

Look, everyone's giving good advice here, but flirting didn't click for me until I heard

it described not as a set of behaviours to look out for, but as an escalation of suggestive

behaviours couched in plausible

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