Help with Social Skills?

Question

What is the best way to learn and practice social skills? I know the generic advice "just go out and meet people", but when I do it I feel like I have to solve a partial differential equation when I have problems with adding fractions. And you can't go back to kindergarten... So what is the proper way to do it?

DamonHD · Accepted Answer

Get out there gently. Not everyone has to be a massive extrovert, and certainly not all at once. Some of it gets easier with gentle practice for some of us... And maybe read some of those words (and videos) online by people who know they have trouble with social stuff and how they make it work at least some of the time.(I think of myself as fairly a introverted technical, but found myself putting down 'social' as one of my key skills on a grant application last week. And I may just have been out nightclubbing last night, not exactly being a wallflower, ho hum...)

cadme · Answer

If you have a hard time discerning and mirroring emotions this might be helpful:emotionlab.cc(Disclaimer: I made it)

kstenerud · Answer

Simplest way is to hire an expert. Look for a social skills coach.

pestatije · Answer

what for?everybody out there socialising are doing it either because they like it or for some other goal...you obviously hope to join the second camp, so what is it?

Help with Social Skills?

If you have a hard time discerning and mirroring emotions this might be helpful:
emotionlab.cc
(Disclaimer: I made it)

Simplest way is to hire an expert. Look for a social skills coach.

what for?
everybody out there socialising are doing it either because they like it or for some other goal...you obviously hope to join the second camp, so what is it?