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Level Up Your Social Life: The Gamer's Guide To Social Success
The Gamer’s Guide to Social Success
If you can succeed at video games, you can succeed socially.
That’s the promise of Level Up Your Social Life. Level Up Your Social Life uses the video game concepts that you’re already familiar with to teach you how to succeed socially. Want to be better at conversation? Pong holds the secret. Want to make more friends? Mario Kart can show you how. It’s written by Daniel Wendler, a leading social skills expert and lifelong gamer. Daniel taught himself social skills to overcome the challenges of Asperger’s Syndrome, and became an author to share what he learned with the world. He’s coached hundreds of people around the world in social skills, spoken at TEDx, and written an online social skills guide read by over a million people. He wrote Level Up Your Social Life to help gamers everywhere make new friends, feel more confident, and have the best social life possible. If you want a guide to social success written by someone that gets what it’s like to be a gamer, this is your book.
Inside the guide, you’ll learn things like:
• How to use “random encounters” to increase your social confidence.
• The Starcraft tactic that can help you manage conflict.
• What Left 4 Dead and friendship have in common.
Plus, you’ll be given real-world quests to help you take your social life to the next level. There’s also achievements, side quests, and cheat codes – everything you need to excel socially.
So what are you waiting for? Level Up Your Social Life today!
If you can succeed at video games, you can succeed socially.
That’s the promise of Level Up Your Social Life. Level Up Your Social Life uses the video game concepts that you’re already familiar with to teach you how to succeed socially. Want to be better at conversation? Pong holds the secret. Want to make more friends? Mario Kart can show you how. It’s written by Daniel Wendler, a leading social skills expert and lifelong gamer. Daniel taught himself social skills to overcome the challenges of Asperger’s Syndrome, and became an author to share what he learned with the world. He’s coached hundreds of people around the world in social skills, spoken at TEDx, and written an online social skills guide read by over a million people. He wrote Level Up Your Social Life to help gamers everywhere make new friends, feel more confident, and have the best social life possible. If you want a guide to social success written by someone that gets what it’s like to be a gamer, this is your book.
Inside the guide, you’ll learn things like:
• How to use “random encounters” to increase your social confidence.
• The Starcraft tactic that can help you manage conflict.
• What Left 4 Dead and friendship have in common.
Plus, you’ll be given real-world quests to help you take your social life to the next level. There’s also achievements, side quests, and cheat codes – everything you need to excel socially.
So what are you waiting for? Level Up Your Social Life today!
120 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2016
About the author
Daniel Wendler
10 books25 followersHi everyone! I'm Daniel Wendler, the author of www.ImproveYourSocialSkills.com and the Improve Your Social Skills ebook. I wrote Improve Your Social Skills to share what I'd learned after my own journey of social skills improvement.
This is my story: http://bit.ly/tedxdan
This is what I believe: www.improveyoursocialskills.com/manif...
And this is where you can connect with me: www.danielwendler.com :)
This is my story: http://bit.ly/tedxdan
This is what I believe: www.improveyoursocialskills.com/manif...
And this is where you can connect with me: www.danielwendler.com :)
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May 12, 2016
This book is excellent! My 14 year old high functioning autistic (with a splash of anxiety disorder thrown in for good measure) son said he wasn't going to read this "cornball book". I let him watch me read it a little bit each night. I would leave it on the coffee table when I was done. Funny how my bookmark was always in the wrong place when I picked it up the next day. Also strange that a couple of pages had Cheetos fingerprints on them.
"For a person with autism" my son appears outgoing. It's really just raw courage that is amazing to watch. I don't have the tools to ease away freshmen year fears. I'm not Peter Pan. I have forgotten what a trial by fire high school is. I enrolled him in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and threw him to the high school wolves. I also wanted to arm him with some options he could use in tricky situations like standing in line in the cafeteria. That wasn't tricky for me but it stressed him out and it took him a while to tell me it stressed him out. That's where this book is awesome. It speaks his gamer language and explains things in a way that he gets. It's like I'm finally able to justify him having every gaming console.
"For a person with autism" my son appears outgoing. It's really just raw courage that is amazing to watch. I don't have the tools to ease away freshmen year fears. I'm not Peter Pan. I have forgotten what a trial by fire high school is. I enrolled him in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and threw him to the high school wolves. I also wanted to arm him with some options he could use in tricky situations like standing in line in the cafeteria. That wasn't tricky for me but it stressed him out and it took him a while to tell me it stressed him out. That's where this book is awesome. It speaks his gamer language and explains things in a way that he gets. It's like I'm finally able to justify him having every gaming console.
January 2, 2018
Simple yet well written.
I love Daniel's writing, specially when it appeals to my geeky self. I found this book really enjoyable because it's a very light read.
The concepts shown aren't exactly tips or actual strategies for improving every interaction although that's what his other book is for, so I'm not complaining.
This book is more of a starting point for someone trying to become a more social person, it's designed to encourage the reader to go out there and talk to people, as shown by the tons of missions and quests that the book provides.
In a nutshell, it's a great book for anyone wanting to become more social that doesn't know where to start, but for the more "advanced player" of the social environment it might feel a little empty, unlike Daniel's other book.
I love Daniel's writing, specially when it appeals to my geeky self. I found this book really enjoyable because it's a very light read.
The concepts shown aren't exactly tips or actual strategies for improving every interaction although that's what his other book is for, so I'm not complaining.
This book is more of a starting point for someone trying to become a more social person, it's designed to encourage the reader to go out there and talk to people, as shown by the tons of missions and quests that the book provides.
In a nutshell, it's a great book for anyone wanting to become more social that doesn't know where to start, but for the more "advanced player" of the social environment it might feel a little empty, unlike Daniel's other book.
February 14, 2021
At last! A social skills guide that gets to the point! I appreciated how this book was written as a strategy guide with very clear and specific steps - do this, then this, then this, but watch out for that. No fluff nor vague content. Recommended for those frustrated by other guides.
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