This may be the funniest thing I have read all day. The amount of absurdity in your post made me believe this was a high quality shit post at first. You broke your fingers during a presentation? A woman named George? You held a speech in the middle of Manchester? Your goal is to be a Japanese music star? That unnecessary pragraph long rant about double standards and pickup really got me. > I would go to a person, start a conversation, stop mid word and keep constant eye contact to see how long they could go in silence without saying anything. My record, 81 seconds. People listen better when you make eye-contact. Now girls tell me to stop looking them in the eye when I ask them out. I guess it's cause their so used to guys looking at their breasts. It's a pretty good feeling. Had me in tears. I thought you were joking the whole time, but you actually delivered good advice. In my opinion, this is the TL;DR of your post: >Describing the specifics of what we did is hard on paper so I ask you to hold your arms out straight, like you were making the letter T or imagining you were a bird and breath as if you were about to jump into a swimming pool on every breath, now move your thumbs back until they are almost 180 to your fingers. Hard right? If not it will be after some time. We had to do this for the full 5 days. 9-11. No breaks. Learning to breath was difficult as well. You see shallow breaths had been for years associated with stammer, we could spend 40 years trying to change that association or a few day associating controlled speech with good breathing.