Eye Contact

Can you make eye contact with others? Yes or no?

Practical courage augmentation or fear conquering

Practice street vlogging. Interview strangers and make eye contact.

The iPhone is probably to blame

If you’re used to making eye contact with a screen, certainly you’re going to lose the faculty to make eye contact with (real) embodied humans.

Social Skills is the future.

Not computer science. Social skills. Social science.

Think about the past

The past heroes of the Iliad were great orators (Odysseus), fierce in their language and bodily force (Achilles), and also stern in their speech (King Leonidas and the Spartans). The term “laconic” speech meaning as originating from (Laconia, aka ancient Sparta).