Not only can your essential self shut down your social skills in order to get you out of bad relationships; it may also enhance those skills when you’re headed in the right direction. When you meet someone who is part of your true path, you may be surprised and gratified at how well the whole social-interaction game unfolds. You’ll say just the right things, at just the right times. Your jokes will be genuinely funny; in fact, even if they’re not, people will seem to think they are. You’ll feel waves of positive attention gravitating toward you. Your social self won’t have a clue about why
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