How To Socialize Better
Practice
- Focus on one thing
- Eye contact
- Using open-ended questions
- Listening
- Body language
- Memory (for names)
Approachability
- Eye-eye-mouth
- Be relaxed
- Avoid using technology
- Un-cross arms
- If you are in a group try to avoid making it enclosed
Topics
- Avoid sensitive topics like religion
- Comment situation
- Example: It is very loud, right?
- Favroite food
- Fun fact
- What if...
- Travel
- About games
- Sport
- Food
Conversation
- Focus
- Eye contact
- Be confident
- Be polite
- Please
- Thank you
- No interruptions
Ideas/recommendations
- Go to the same place --> meet the same people ---> become friends
- No social media why:
- Health
- Can misunderstand (there are no facial expressions)
- You get worse at resolving conflicts
Pros and cons of Reading
Pros
- Improves your vocabulary
- Strengthens memory
- Can reduce stress and anxiety Why?
- Because you are in your litte world
- You are only thinking about reading
- Improves empathy How?
- You are another person and "know & feel" their feelings
- Reduces the risk of Alzheimer's disease
- Helps develop language skills
- Makes you more Open Minded (exposes you to other opinions)
- Improves Congnitive function (memory, problem solving, etc)
- Better for health than TV
- Improves focus - when reading you need to concentrate
- Increases life span (less stress = longer and happier life)
- You know more = know when something is not true
Cons
- Can cause back pain and eye-strain
- Don't socialize or exercise
- Time-consuming
- Can cost money -- spend a lot on books
- Can be distracting
- Can cause headaches
- Can take away sleep time (want to read on and on and on )
- Not good for environment (paper = wood = trees)
- Makes you really smart = people make fun of you
- Mental fatigue (too many thoughts) - brain fog
- Can make you ignore your problems and not fix/solve them
- Can overwhelm you