I want to improve my social skills. I thought by way of stepping out of my comfort zone. So here’s what I thought:
Try and make conversation to a random person, location or occasion be damned, at least once per week. With saying more than two sentences be deemed sufficient. If the other person does not initially respond amicably (to the first sentence), I leave them alone.
Start with people born before 1990.
They grew up with the idea of making small talk with strangers.
Funny thing is, I often find it’s people born after 1990 who are desperate for small talk, but just often don’t know how to do it.
It’s like talking to them lifts this huge weight off their shoulders, and yet at the same time leaves them feeling weird and confused.