Stylelife: Do you think that there were any other big Ah-Ha
moments or epiphanies for you, other than Identity Storytelling? Things
that you learned that really shifted the way you were thinking?
Stringer: One of the things that I learned was the idea of being
indirect with the approach, and the extent to which you can take that.
One of the first things that I've learned from The Sneak, is that you can
open a set by not even actually opening that set. You can wear something
interesting, or you can be loud enough when you're talking about
something interesting that other people who are around you can either
hear you or see you, and be interested in what you're saying or wearing
and wanting to just talk to you as a result of that. Which is pretty much
the most indirect you can be in opening a set.
Stylelife: Right, absolutely. Did you experience success of getting
to meet some interesting people, that you don't think that you would have
been able to meet if you didn't know how to open indirectly?
Stringer: Yeah. There have been numerous times when girls,
guys, people, anyone really at the bar, who have heard me talking to a
bartender about a specific drink, got intrigued by what I was talking
about and joined the conversation. They would ask what I ordered and
often didn't expect me to have such an extensive knowledge of different
drinks of the alcoholic persuasion. I was able to start a conversation
about that. Then, I'm getting some more interesting identity story telling.
Stylelife: It sounds like you feel that Identity Storytelling was a
major shift in your life and really allowed you to express things and be a
little bit more interesting. When you have people seeing that they're
interested in you, do you find that to be something that you were able to
spot previously in your life, where people were giving you signs that
they were interested or is that something that you've gotten better at
spotting since you've been practicing?