Archive for July, 2007

Knowing your audience

A good conversationalist should also be a good listener – and a keen observer. By far, the most important thing about initiating and maintaining a conversation with an individual or group is to know your audience. I’ve found this to be crucial. Unfortunately, there are many of us (introverts and extroverts alike) that miss this [...]

Conversation

Conversation, or rather, the art of conversation, is a very big deal when it comes to connecting with others and functioning in social circles. If you are unable to communicate with others effectively, you simply get left behind.
Growing up, suffering from acute social anxiety, the art of conversation was not something that I thought about [...]

The journey is its own reward

There is an old saying about how it’s not the destination that matters, but the journey along the way. No truer words have ever been spoken, in my opinion.
I’ve spent a good part of my life wishing things were different. Always feeling inadequate in some way – always needing to change something – never being [...]