How to help someone with poor social skills

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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Ask/Tell > How to help someone with poor social skills

Chas McGill: Oct 29, 2010; loves Fat Philippe

hiaowy posted:

We learn social skills through experience. If you talk to 1,000 people and are reasonably analytical, you will figure out what works.

I would recommend a face-to-face sales job ( ie soliciting people for donations in a crowded location ) or a cold calling sales job. The amount of rejection/feedback will undo a lot of bad social habits quickly. A side benefit is the increase in confidence. After being rejected hundreds of times, you tend to develop a really thick skin.

When I was a teen I worked in a call centre trying to sell people kitchens - it really knocked a few edges off me. Mainly it made me more comfortable with the idea that a negative short interaction with people wasn't going to go permanent social record or something.

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