Hey, it’s Graham here, and I want to talk about starting conversations with strangers. And there’s a little trick here that I’ve worked out that I want to share with you which I think is kind of important. So the reason why starting conversations with strangers is important is that it’s in conversations and our social skills that our confidence is most important and is most obvious to other people.
Now, there’s no magic silver bullet to starting conversations with strangers. The reason for that is that it doesn’t really matter what you say to people when you first meet them. Everything that’s really important is in the attitude that you have. If you’re nervous and insecure or edgy when you meet somebody, particularly a woman, they’re going to sense that and they’re going to feel like, “I’m bit uncomfortable about talking to this person.” You’re not going to come across as very confident.
So the secret to starting conversations with strangers is to practice. Now, one of the steps in my free confidence building e-course has you do exactly this, to practice starting conversations with strangers. And it’s a lot easier than you might think. See, during the day, we normally interact with a lot of people who are in some kind of service industry who are there to do something for us.… Continue reading…
How to Start Conversations with Strangers is a post from The Confident Man Project