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July
2, 2007:
The Art Of Socializing
Interview
with Susan Roane, author of How
to Work a Room
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Mike
Carruthers:
Because of technology we are socializing - REALLY socializing:
face-to-face, shaking hands kind of socializing, less and less.
Susan Roane:
We now have something called techno friends. I have a friend
in India, we've never met, we've never even talked it's been
strictly talking on email.
Susan Roane,
author of the book How
to Work a Room, believes that techno friends are no substitute
for real human connection.
And this is me
sounding like my mother, "Go out, you'll never meet anyone
sitting at home." In this century you will meet everyone
sitting at home, but it won't have the same value. You've got
to put yourself in situations where there are other people or
this is a very isolated world. The result of being isolated
is it doesn't contribute to our health. The research shows people
who live longer and live healthier have social connections.
Because of this
isolation, more than ninety percent of the population consider
themselves shy to some degree - more than ninety percent. So
if that's you and you're going to be in a social situation,
go early.
And the reason
is, it's easier to be in the room when other people come in
than to walk into the room that seems already full of people.
That one is probably the golden nugget. Don't go and make the
grand entrance, shy people just don't do a grand entrance.
Tomorrow, how
to enter a conversation when everyone in it is already talking
- I'm Mike Carruthers and that's Something You Should Know.
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