The unparalleled mandatory social skill that will change your fortune is
talking and conversing with strangers.
Why don’t we talk to strangers anymore?
We are so accustomed to our loneliness and mobiles these days that we don’t think it is important to talk to people in our immediate proximity, let alone strangers. Toxic individualism and pathological loneliness have taken away our bare minimum skills of talking to ourselves. And because all our self-talk is essentially complaints and regrets, we don’t find it easy anymore to talk to others.
Top reasons why people don’t talk to the strangers
- I may get judged.
- Why interfere in other’s life?
- What’s the point of talking to strangers?
- Who knows what kind of people they are?
- Screw it. Let’s scroll social media.
- What’s my benefit in talking to others or strangers anyways?
- What if the stranger is turned out to be the one with bad intentions?
Top reasons why you must absolutely start talking to strangers
- It improves your social skills and makes it easy for you to deal with people.
- Everyone has some interesting stories to share. It gives you real stories, to share with others, and on social media.
- People are lonely and want to talk. Simply by listening to someone, you can make one’s day.
- It gives you multiple perspectives about life and on subjects, so you analyze things better.
- Smiling, talking and hugging keeps you away from negative thoughts and helps you to have great mental health.
- People like helping people they like. If you make someone’s day, they like you. When people start liking you, they want to do business with you.
- Talking to random people slowly reduces your social anxiety and your fear of being judged.
- This skill surprisingly increases your willpower, because you are pushing yourself against the inherent genetic fear of danger from strangers.
- The ability to talk to anyone, anytime, anywhere without any motive or purpose gives you tremendous social confidence. This confidence remains with you in meetings and other business activities, where you just kill it with your confidence.
- the more people you talk to, you understand the behavioral and personality traits, and your chances of failure with people come down bit by bit. Because failing with people is considered one of the major reasons why people fail, you eventually start seeing exponential growth.
Your first step towards mastering the social skills of talking, interacting and conversation with random people.
Morning walk in the parks is a great place to start. There are many seniors, who are lonely and look to talk. They don’t judge. Just say hi “uncle/aunty”, wave hands, and give smile. Sit with them and talk.
The conversation is free medicine. Use it, and remain healthy. Conversation is also an extremely top social skills that very few recognize and work towards mastering. Once you start implementing this small step, and then go onto master the skill of talking to the strangers, you will see the growth in your career just skyrocketing by each day.
