Superhuman Social Skills Quotes

“When telling a story, you should have three primary phases in order: the setup, the buildup, and the payoff.”
― Tynan, Superhuman Social Skills: A Guide to Being Likeable, Winning Friends, and Building Your Social Circle

“Consider what about you makes you valuable as a friend, and whenever you're in a new social situation, think about which of your assets will most be appreciated by that group and work on conveying them. Do it early in the interaction and then move on to getting to know everyone else.    ”
― Tynan, Superhuman Social Skills: A Guide to Being Likeable, Winning Friends, and Building Your Social Circle

“Direct eye contact conveys high status universally. Taking up a lot of space with your body also conveys high status.   Talking”
― Tynan, Superhuman Social Skills: A Guide to Being Likeable, Winning Friends, and Building Your Social Circle

“party.   Being a net addition is different than just not being a net negative. Being simply neutral is often a negative, as you are taking up an attendance slot that could have been used by someone else who could have been an addition. It's important to proactively add to social situations.   Most”
― Tynan, Superhuman Social Skills: A Guide to Being Likeable, Winning Friends, and Building Your Social Circle

“We may have hundreds of Facebook friends whose every move we follow, but with whom we never have a meaningful conversation. So many of our conversations are electronic that we've dulled some of those skills that are only useful in real life: timing, yielding, listening, and perceiving facial expressions and body language.”
― Tynan, Superhuman Social Skills: A Guide to Being Likeable, Winning Friends, and Building Your Social Circle

“Consider what about you makes you valuable as a friend, and whenever you're in a new social situation, think about which of your assets will most be appreciated by that group and work on conveying them. Do it early in the interaction and then move on to getting to know everyone else.”
― Tynan, Superhuman Social Skills: A Guide to Being Likeable, Winning Friends, and Building Your Social Circle

“There are four main channels being communicated on at all times: content, meta, emotion, and status.”
― Tynan, Superhuman Social Skills: A Guide to Being Likeable, Winning Friends, and Building Your Social Circle