Everyone wants to be connected
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Everyone wants to be connected
“Don’t worry about being the most interesting person in the room, just try to be the most interested person in the room.
• The interested person asks about others and leaves a good impression because people like talking about themselves.
• The interested person is genuinely curious about someone’s craft and learns a lot about how things work.
• The
James Clear • 3-2-1: Starting the new year the right way, how to stay focused, and a lesson on long-term thinking
you aren't making any friends because you're not sharing anything meaningful about yourself in conversations. strangers have no way to get to know you. no information to latch onto to form a connection.
have the audacity to believe that people are curious about you. they want to hear from you. share about a vacation you... See more
Adele Blochx.comAs I hope I’ve made clear by now, people are eager, often desperate, to be seen, heard, and understood. And yet we have built a culture, and a set of manners, in which that doesn’t happen. The way you fix that is simple, easy, and fun: Ask people to tell you their stories.
David Brooks • How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
“Everyone wants to attend parties, but no one wants to throw them. We just expect them to appear when we need them, like fire trucks. My point is that we are obligated to create the social world we want. Intimacy, togetherness—the opposite of the crushing loneliness so many people seem to feel—are what parties alchemize.” As someone who tends to
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