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When I first started looking for ways to improve my social life, I wanted quick fixes. I wanted to have the techniques that enabled me to walk into a room, talk to anyone, have them love me for my wit and humour, and then I’d be the life of the party. I wanted charm, and I wanted to be the most interesting guy anyone can ever know.

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Warning: Don’t be evil!

I have a secret for you. This is something everyone knows about, but they don’t consciously use it. It’s part of human nature, but it is so manipulative that if you realised its power, you will understand what you can do to get what you want. But don’t tell anyone else about this…

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My friends and I had a very interesting conversation today on connecting with people. At first, we hovered around the topic of generating more conversational content, so that people would feel more comfortable with maintaining a conversation. We started to do an exercise, with the purpose of taking hooks from a person’s sentence, and using that to generate content. It went something like this:

“I went to Michigan last year for a holiday.”

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This is Part 2 and the conclusion of Start blaming yourself!.

I remember how I was as a child. I was skinny (still am), short, and had asthma. My height didn’t experience a spurt in growth until I was about 16 years old, and at 15, I noticed that my nose seemed to be becoming bigger. Great. More ugliness for me.

It would have helped if I had people around to reassure me that being skinny was fine, that it played no part in my personality, that I was normal. But alas, my classmates would constantly ask me, “Why are you so skinny?” Every year, as I changed classes and became acquainted with new people, I always faced the same questions. On a subtext note, it was as good as saying, “Why aren’t you normal like us?”

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