[quote]ActivitiesGuy wrote:
enjoyable social interactions with people who share his interests[/quote]
That’s the geekiest way I’ve heard someone describe “hanging out.”
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Fair point. We academics tend to speak in big words when smaller ones will do.[/quote]
Try reading or re-reading For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Sun Also Rise, and The Old Man and the Sea. Then make sure you burn everything in your house by Faulkner. These small steps will help.
[quote]ActivitiesGuy wrote:
enjoyable social interactions with people who share his interests[/quote]
That’s the geekiest way I’ve heard someone describe “hanging out.”
[/quote]
Fair point. We academics tend to speak in big words when smaller ones will do.[/quote]
Try reading or re-reading For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Sun Also Rise, and The Old Man and the Sea. Then make sure you burn everything in your house by Faulkner. These small steps will help.
:)[/quote]
Is that how you met your wife?
Are book burning parties a good way to meet friends?
[quote]ActivitiesGuy wrote:
enjoyable social interactions with people who share his interests[/quote]
That’s the geekiest way I’ve heard someone describe “hanging out.”
[/quote]
Fair point. We academics tend to speak in big words when smaller ones will do.[/quote]
Try reading or re-reading For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Sun Also Rise, and The Old Man and the Sea. Then make sure you burn everything in your house by Faulkner. These small steps will help.
:)[/quote]
Is that how you met your wife?
Are book burning parties a good way to meet friends?[/quote]
I met my wife on a blind date, actually. And I don’t really advocate burning books, even books written by Faulkner. That was tongue-in-cheek.
Hemingway once defended his concise style against a charge by Faulkner that he “had never been known to use a word that might send the reader to the dictionary.” Hemingway responded by saying, “Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.”
Is it only parties where most of the people are strangers or barely acquaintances? Do you feel kinda like your actions and everything is contrived, kinda feel like a poser at these things?
Are you more social and relaxed at parties where most of the people are known friends where there are few acquaintances?
I’ll give you some big time advice, if the above is true you may be an introvert, which is a personality type. You probably thrive in situations like small circles, and one on one conversations vs. groups of new people.
Don’t try to be like your friends, get good with small groups. A good strategy is to try socializing with random people on the street as a matter of practice. What happens is, you feel really awkward at first but as you do it more often you can get into a type of flow and that anxiety will slowly start to go away, as you practice more the better you will get… Eventually you will feel a lot less anxiety around new people and new settings if you just practice this.
[quote]ActivitiesGuy wrote:
enjoyable social interactions with people who share his interests[/quote]
That’s the geekiest way I’ve heard someone describe “hanging out.”
[/quote]
Fair point. We academics tend to speak in big words when smaller ones will do.[/quote]
Try reading or re-reading For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Sun Also Rise, and The Old Man and the Sea. Then make sure you burn everything in your house by Faulkner. These small steps will help.
:)[/quote]
Is that how you met your wife?
Are book burning parties a good way to meet friends?[/quote]
I met my wife on a blind date, actually. And I don’t really advocate burning books, even books written by Faulkner. That was tongue-in-cheek.
Hemingway once defended his concise style against a charge by Faulkner that he “had never been known to use a word that might send the reader to the dictionary.” Hemingway responded by saying, “Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.”
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Whenever I catch myself getting overly verbose, I remind myself to read Hemingway. Learning to use simpler, better words has helped my career immensely. Ideas are no good if your audience doesn’t understand them.
[quote]ActivitiesGuy wrote:
enjoyable social interactions with people who share his interests[/quote]
That’s the geekiest way I’ve heard someone describe “hanging out.”
[/quote]
Fair point. We academics tend to speak in big words when smaller ones will do.[/quote]
Try reading or re-reading For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Sun Also Rise, and The Old Man and the Sea. Then make sure you burn everything in your house by Faulkner. These small steps will help.
:)[/quote]
Is that how you met your wife?
Are book burning parties a good way to meet friends?[/quote]
I met my wife on a blind date, actually. And I don’t really advocate burning books, even books written by Faulkner. That was tongue-in-cheek.
Hemingway once defended his concise style against a charge by Faulkner that he “had never been known to use a word that might send the reader to the dictionary.” Hemingway responded by saying, “Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.”
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My guess is Hemmingway was just butt hurt he couldn’t make it through a Faulkner novel.
Written coarsely so all Hemmingway lovers can read it.
[quote]ChongLordUno wrote:
This concept of maintaining some form of ‘bodybuilding discipline’, especially if you’re in your late teens/early twenties, is absurd.
Unless your competing or making money from your physique then there is nothing wrong with cutting loose once in a while and having fun. [/quote]
you sir, are definitely Scottish[/quote]
Exactly mate. Where men drink tonic wine by the pint and don’t give a flying fuck if their body fat percentage drops a digit overnight.
