ve a natural preference for extraversion you’ll recognise some of these points.1. You love being the centre of attention and are energised with lots of activity.2. When you meet people you tend to talk quite loudly, and often interrupt the other person.3. While others are talking you’re not really listening to them, but thinking up [...]
Are you one of those people who’s very confident, who makes new friends easily, who has no trouble asking someone for a date? Or are you a person who lacks confidence, who fears rejection, who is constantly worried about whether other people really like him, or will reject him? Does your fear of being rejected make [...]
Many people misunderstand what social skills are – and what they’re not. Here’s a quick look at a few common myths and some information on what social skills really are.Myth #1:People who like talking are interesting and have good social skills.False.Verbosity isn’t a social skill. In fact, it can damage one’s social popularity and result [...]
You may not realize it, but smoking affects your social life as well as your physical well being. How often have you avoided going places because they were non-smoking, or ducked out of a party at the height of the action to satisfy your nicotine cravings?When you quit smoking, you can also increase your confidence, [...]
I didn’t feel comfortable talking to people. My friends would organize social events and I wouldn’t go, even when I wanted to. Why? I didn’t know. I came up with lots of lame excuses for not wanting to go. But deep down I was dying to attend these events – I just couldn’t. I know [...]
Are you a person who does not have the social life you’d like? Do you find yourself sitting home most nights when you’d rather be spending time with friends? Are you well past school age and find the whole process of making new friends and social contacts a mystery? Have you moved to a new [...]
How acne affects people’s lives“There is no single disease which causes more psychic trauma, more maladjustment between parents and children, more general insecurity and feelings of inferiority and greater sums of psychic suffering than does acne vulgaris.” –Sulzberger & Zaldems, 1948While known for quite some time, the psychosocial effects of acne have not been fully [...]
Being the newest nurse on your unit can be scary; you may feel as if everyone has their eyes on you, seizing you up and secretly laughing behind your back at the smallest sign of blunder on your part. Penetrating a new group can be intimidating especially if that group is tight and have a [...]
Getting a social life isn’t all that hard. The problem is that most people make and keep friends without really thinking about how they do it. They just picked up the skills automatically as they grew up. If you’ve always been more of the shy, loner type than you’ll probably appreciate some pointers.Pretty much anyone [...]
There are four major types of connections: arcade, garland, angular, and thready. Often the graphologist finds more than one form of connection in the same writing. If one form is used more frequently than the others, the writer probably has the qualities reflected by that particular form of connection. However, although one form may be [...]