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"As a freelance writer, I&amp;#39;m always interviewing random and interesting people. And they&amp;#39;re not just dating experts&amp;#8212;my subjects can range from a guy who ploughs cornfield mazes to a woman who wore lipstick to her mastectomy. So the other day, I was talking to Stan Blits, Co-Producer of The Price is Right. He was explaining how he auditions contestants, and I realized that what he was telling me sounded like dating advice!\nPinterestFacebookTHE PRICE IS RIGHT, (from left): Nikki Zierling, host Bob Barker, Claudia Jordan, Heather Kozar, (2001), 1972-. photo: Monty Brinton / \u00A9 CBS / Courtesy: Everett Collection\nBob, you&amp;#39;re the pimp. No advice needed.\nWhen I&amp;#39;m on a date or talking to a guy, I can be pretty oblivious. Stan, on the other hand, is a keen observer of people. That&amp;#39;s his job! He interviews every single audience member. In a month, he&amp;#39;ll interview 7,400 people, or about 1,800 people a week.\nHe won&amp;#39;t just pick you randomly to be on the show. He looks for certain qualities in people, much like dating. &amp;quot;Obviously, a Jeopardy! contestant won&amp;#39;t have the same personality as the contestant that we have,&amp;quot; Stan says.\nHere is how you can make a good first impression on Stan&amp;#8212;and all the men you date:\nBe open-minded.\n*At a PIR audition, people line up around the building and do a group interview, 12 at a time. He addresses each person, goofs off with them, and asks them where they&amp;#39;re from and what they do, like in a date. &amp;quot;Almost immediately,&amp;quot; Stan tells me, &amp;quot;you can see how open their heart is, who is willing to submit themselves to the moment, have a complete openness and energy about being there. Some people you see it that second, some people you have to dig.&amp;quot; *Be sincere and authentic.\n&amp;quot;People jump up and down. But I&amp;#39;m not looking for the put-on. You can tell the fakers from the real ones. I&amp;#39;m looking for three things: energy, sincerity, and a potential sense of humor.&amp;quot;\nBe able to laugh at yourself.\n&amp;quot;They have to be able to laugh at themselves. I make jokes about their jobs and I see how they respond.&amp;quot;\nStay engaged, alert, and energetic.\n&amp;quot;I watch how other people are reacting to the interview while I interview. If they look at the floor while I&amp;#39;m talking to someone else, then they&amp;#39;re not engaged in the process. If they perk up only when I talk to them, then you can tell it&amp;#39;s an act. Stay consistently joyous, happy, and energetic. It&amp;#39;s all about energy. But it&amp;#39;s not necessarily about screaming and yelling. A 92-year-old lady that&amp;#39;s sassy and fun [can have great energy].&amp;quot;\nBe proud of who you are and what you do.\n&amp;quot;You don&amp;#39;t want people to feel they blew their chances by saying they&amp;#39;re a housewife. Housewives can be funny! Astronauts can be dull as a cork.&amp;quot; Stan also says not to try to be brilliant if you&amp;#39;re not. &amp;quot;It&amp;#39;s not about what they say but how they say it. They should be natural. Just be yourself and the best part will come through.&amp;quot;\nI would be scared to date Stan, haha! Even though he was awesome to talk to. &amp;quot;I realized once on a date that I was looking for the same thing in a contestant as I look for in a date,&amp;quot; he says. &amp;quot;You really dig into their souls quickly. In a party, I can get somebody&amp;#39;s essence in 20 seconds. I know whether they&amp;#39;re having issues that week. I look at people and how they relate to each other&amp;#8212;even newlyweds&amp;#8212;and I see a lot of eye-rolling and correcting (&amp;quot;He doesn&amp;#39;t mean that\u2026&amp;quot;). They are trying to be what they think their partners want them to be.&amp;quot;\nSo basically, in order to make a good first impression on a date, you should do everything you would do at a game show audition. In summary:\nBe open-minded.\nStay engaged with the interviewer and the world around you.\nLearn to laugh at yourself.\nEnergy, energy, energy!\nBe authentic.\nDon&amp;#39;t try to be brilliant.\nCan you believe how perceptive Stan&amp;#39;s job has made him? He is seriously the coolest. Isn&amp;#39;t it funny how being a good Price is Right contestant would also make you the best date ever?\nP.S. Who else gives good dating advice? See what Shallon&amp;#39;s personal trainer taught her about love.\nGet Glamour Wherever You Go! Follow us on Twitter. Friend us on Facebook. Add us to your Google homepage.\nPhoto: Everett Collection"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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