I've been following this subreddit for a few months, and I want to take this time to say thank you. I am now noticing the mistakes I am making and working towards fixing them. However, once area I seem to suffer in is my conversational skills.

I always used to consider myself a funny and interesting person. However whenever I start having a conversation with someone new, I get so bored with myself, I want to just die. What can I do to better my conversational skills? Not only with girls, but with everyone! Any books? General Topics? Any Specific Threads that discuss this?