The First Night Script
The notebook tells you what to do. This is about the eleven seconds before you say it.
Nobody fails at this because the method was wrong. They fail standing in the kitchen with the sentence already in their mouth. The First Night Script is the words themselves: fourteen openings, sorted by his temperament — the man who goes quiet, the man who turns it into a joke, the man who takes offence, and the man who genuinely did not notice anything was wrong.
Nineteen pages, and you will read four of them: your temperament, the three hours of the day when each opening actually works, the five sentences that reliably turn this into an argument, and what to do if he says nothing at all.
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