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Originally Posted by rikun  Well, how do you break out of your shell? Everyone keeps telling guys just to practice, talk to strangers, say hi to everybody, start small. [...]I have usually no problems interacting with people I vaguely know, but strangers are the problem. |
Hmmm....
Hmm....
Hm....
Did you ever notice the fact that
WE ARE STRANGERS?
Imagine that this forum is a bar somewhere, and you just walked in and randomly spoke with us, totally foreign ladies and gentlement, being honest about everything and asking us advice.
I
assure you it's the same in a
real bar, and often they are more likely to be receptive and understanding in real bars than on a text-based communication medium....
You don't need to break out of any shell, because everything is already inside you... and just waits to expand itself.
My advice: don't follow everything those self-help books and audiotapes say literally.
They mean something, but they use many complicated concepts, metaphors and whatever to say the most obvious things on Earth!
Trust me, talking to "strangers" on a real road, bar or in a bus, is
much easier than Registering on a forum, picking a password, typing all those registration codes, etc. and writing all text.
