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Social Skills: How to Be Confident in Social Situations (Ep. 181)
Category: Education
Duration: 01:30:48
Publish Date: 2017-10-16 06:00:00
Description:

Few skills have as much of an effect on your happiness as social skills. We talk a bit about how to build confidence and connect with other humans.

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Timestamps:

  • 0:00:25 - Working at home and renting offices
  • 0:04:54 - How isolation affects your social skills
  • 0:07:00 - Becoming more socially confident
  • 0:13:46 - Improving your enunciation
  • 0:19:07 - Grooming, personal identity and self-confidence
  • 0:31:07 - Being more serious and open about your interests
  • 0:34:45 - Reasons for today's amount of isolation and depression
  • 0:36:59 - Don't always hang out in big groups and build deeper friendships
  • 0:42:00 - Socializing without your friends
  • 0:47:27 - Approaching people with the 3-second rule and meeting celebrities
  • 0:53:00 - Starting conversations by showing interest in people
  • 0:57:33 - Having a hobby that might be perceived as weird
  • 1:11:47 - Learning how to listen and reaching out to people you admire
  • 1:22:48 - Don't try to be the greatest at everything you do
  • 1:25:27 - Recap and conclusion

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