{"id":245639,"date":"2020-06-20T15:59:11","date_gmt":"2020-06-20T22:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=245639"},"modified":"2020-06-20T16:15:55","modified_gmt":"2020-06-20T23:15:55","slug":"social-skills-as-a-muscle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/20\/social-skills-as-a-muscle\/","title":{"rendered":"SOCIAL SKILLS AS A MUSCLE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t born confident. It was a muscle that grew. How? My mom is insanely social. She taught me social skills. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To grow your social skills you must exercise them \u00e2\u20ac\u201d like a muscle. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Simple ideas <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-videopress\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"VideoPress Video Player\" aria-label='VideoPress Video Player' width='500' height='281' src='https:\/\/videopress.com\/embed\/eegyN4Bv?autoPlay=1&amp;loop=1&amp;muted=1&amp;persistVolume=0&amp;preloadContent=metadata&amp;hd=0&amp;cover=1' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen allow='clipboard-write'><\/iframe><script src='https:\/\/v0.wordpress.com\/js\/next\/videopress-iframe.js?m=1674852142'><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Wave hello or give people the peace sign. Start chatting. <\/li><li>Ask them about their life story or life dreams <\/li><li>Ask people about their personal opinion on x, y, z.<\/li><li>Realize strangers are more likely to share personal life stories than even close friends and family. Why? You don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know them and won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t spill the beans to anyone they know. <\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t born confident. It was a muscle that grew. How? My mom is insanely social. She taught me social skills. To grow your social skills you must exercise them \u00e2\u20ac\u201d like a muscle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":244854,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/ERIC-KIM-park-workout-00046-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1600&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245639"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245648,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245639\/revisions\/245648"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}