I’m increasingly convinced it’s much easier (and happier) to assume strangers are friends you haven’t met yet, than to assume strangers will remain strangers.
I’m increasingly convinced it’s much easier (and happier) to assume strangers are friends you haven’t met yet, than to assume strangers will remain strangers.
Remember, the rule of thumb is simple when making friends: be socially optimistic. Assume other people will like you and they probably will.
Eric Barker • Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong
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Making a leap of faith around what other people are like helps to humanize the world. Whenever we encounter a stranger we’re not really encountering such a person, we’re encountering someone who is – in spite of surface evidence to the contrary – in basic ways very much like us, and therefore nothing fundamental stands between us and the possibilit
... See moreAlain De Botton • The School of Life: An Emotional Education
If we want to meet friendly people, we have to be one first.
Shasta Nelson • Friendships Don't Just Happen!: The Guide to Creating a Meaningful Circle of GirlFriends
Start thinking of strangers as people who can bring new dimensions to your life, not as persons to be feared.
Debra Fine • The Fine Art of Small Talk: How to Start a Conversation, Keep It Going, Build Networking Skills -- and Leave a Positive Impression!
if you trust your own good taste — and identify a kindred spirit, a soul you suspect you'd vibe with — here on this our beloved internet — you really should reach out, say hey — because you're likely right — and why not spark a beautiful friendship?
Brendan Schlagel • Tweet
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I believe each of us can make the world a little friendlier, a little more trusting, a little better, and that it can start with something as simple as 'hello'.
Gillian Sandstrom • Why you should talk to strangers | BPS
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So this is what we start with. Become a loving and curious person. Seek out other people who are like this. Introduce the best of such people to each other.
Visakan Veerasamy • visakanv's 50yr "plan" for global nerd network [wip]
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- The world has shifted from the mindset of, “Never meet people from the internet,” to, “Only meet people from the internet“
Chris Best • Writers Writing, Readers Reading, Creators Creating
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