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12:16pm July 30, 2013

➸ Social skills for autonomous people: Identifying common interests

realsocialskills:

Conversations with unfamiliar people are easier if you can identify common interests as quickly as possible.

In college social environments, there are certain questions it’s almost always socially acceptable to ask that can be helpful:

  • What year are you?
  • Where are you from?
  • What’s your major?

Yeah a kid came over to my house and asked what my parents did for a living, and my mom said it was rude because she was trying to figure out class stuff.

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    I think it’s considered acceptable in some contexts to ask people what they do. Some I’m pretty sure about: If someone...
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    Yeah a kid came over to my house and asked what my parents did for a living, and my mom said it was rude because she was...
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    I tried to acquire some general, acceptable interests to overcome my problems in this area. Music is a good one. Most...