Category: socialize
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What I Learned From Calling 30 Strangers On The Phone
The phone sucks. It just does. I’m already a person who has had to work and refine just to get my social skills to the point where I’m comfortable in 95% of social situations. Phone calls take 80% of that and dash it against the wall. You can’t see the person’s face, you can’t read…
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The Fine Art of Small Talk Book Review
Debra Fine has made a living as a small talk expert. She’s traveled the country handing out knowledge around starting and keeping conversations alive. Seminars, group settings, speaking events, book writing, she’s dabbled in several mediums. In her book The Fine Art of Small Talk, she gathers a condensed version of her various tips and…
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How to Talk to Anyone Book Review
Leil Lowndes’ book How to Talk to Anyone promises the reader 92 actionable tips to help them shine in any social situation. By the end, you would hope to be able to stand face to face with everybody you meet and glide through conversations effortlessly. We’ll break it down in this How to Talk to…
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10 Most Useful Tips from How to Talk to Anyone
Leil Lowndes is a professional communications consultant who has made a living providing direction and insight in the field of human connection. Her book How to Talk to Anyone offers you, the reader, 92 tips and tricks that can improve your personal and professional communication outcomes. If you had to start somewhere, I believe these…
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How Perfect Dialogue in Media Sets Us Up for Social Failure
Think about some of your favorite content creators. TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, doesn’t matter. Watch some of their content. Notice anything? It’s perfect. And I don’t mean the set, the lighting, or the graphics. I mean the dialogue. Don’t believe me? Pull up a short on YouTube, a TikTok video, or a reel on Instagram. Something…
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Make Someone Love You: Five Things to Remember About a Person
Name Short of physical appearance, your name is the key differentiator between you and some random guy across town. It’s the lowest bar possible for remembering details about a person. Miss this and you’ve dropped the ball. Never forget it and you make someone love you. We’ve all heard the quote. As Dale Carnegie said:…
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How to Set Yourself Up for Social Failure
You’re shy. You’re possibly introverted. Perhaps socializing is just a weakness of yours that you’d like to improve. How can you guarantee social failure for yourself? Let me teach you. Each of these four horsemen of the apocalypse are bad on their own, but combining them all will assure disaster. Keep these in mind when…
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Socialize Well: Five More Habits That Will Weirdly Help You
This is a continuation of my previous post wherein I discussed five things that would weirdly help you socialize better. I’m back with five more. While the first post largely focused on the mental game, this post is going to hone in on the physical aspect. Each of these items involves an action which requires…
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Socialize Better: Five Habits That Will Weirdly Help You
Here are five things that have personally helped me alleviate angst in my own social life. Try them for yourself.