‘Social Skills’ Archives
5 Habits that Will Make You More Intelligent
“Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.” - Victor Hugo Genetics have a lot to do with your potential IQ, but intelligence is not only about the ability to understand and learn new things – the more you know about things the more intelligent you appear to be and the easier it is for you to master things. You can become more intelligent by [...]
3 Practical Steps for Making Friends and Improving Your Social Life
“Only a life lived for others is worth living” - Albert Einstein It is quite surprising to realize how many people have problems with social skills, although we humans are supposed to be social creatures. For some people good social skills come naturally and they are usually the loudest ones as well, so it might seem like most people would be good in making new friends, but that is not [...]
How to Control Anger – 5 Tips that Actually Work
“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.” - Siddharta Gautama Some people have shorter temper than others, but I believe that everyone loses temper every now and then. I consider myself as a calm person who does not get angry very easily, but I have still had my share of extreme feelings of anger [...]
How to Remember Someone’s Name with One Simple Trick
"A person's name is to that person the sweetest and most important sound in any language" - Dale Carnegie I am not sure if this is the case for everyone, but I have sometimes serious problems of remembering the names of the people that are not in my closest circle of friends. I can remember the face of someone who I have only met once briefly, but the names just seem to be impossible to [...]
The Power of Giving
I stumbled upon this great story in Joshua Becker's blog "Becoming Minimalist", which he had found from the book Mr. Little John's Secrets to a Lifetime of Success: Many years ago, a 10-year-old boy walked up to the counter of a soda shop and climbed onto a stool. He caught the eye of the waitress and asked, “How much is an ice cream sundae?” “Fifty cents,” the waitress replied. The [...]
8 Ways to Have a Horrible Body Language
Body language is a form of non-verbal communication, which consists of body posture, gestures, facial expressions, and eye movements. Like other animals, also we humans send and interpret such signals subconsciously. According to research, between 60 and 70 percent of all meaning is derived from nonverbal behavior, so it is quite odd that we are mostly taught in school and in work how to write [...]
How to Become More Assertive
We all know different types of people in our society. There are aggressive persons who are rude and willing to do anything to meet their needs by bullying other people. Then everyone probably knows people who are very passive and are so concerned about what other people think about them that they just go with the crowd without thinking or expressing too much of their own needs. The right balance [...]
The Nice Guy –Syndrome
This is something that we keep on hearing all the time: “So sad that she dumped him – he is such a nice guy”. It must be the biggest mystery of the universe, because it doesn’t seem to make any sense: Why would a woman want to be treated like shit? Everyone of us knows good guys that keep on failing in relationships over and over again and usually we think that it is the woman’s fault, [...]
How to Be a Real Man
There are many ways to define a man and nowadays the male role model is anything but a clear and simple concept. More often men have lived their childhood without seeing their fathers every day and in the kindergarten and school most of the teachers are females, so the time spent with grown up men in the childhood is very small for many guys. The social environment gives us many different ideas [...]
How to Make People Like You
We often wonder why some people are like magnets when it comes to finding friends and some people can spend most of their lives alone even though that would not be their choice. Of course some people are naturally good with others and don't really have to think about anything. They just are what they are and other people seem to like it. However, it is very possible to change our own attitudes [...]
