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3 Simple Habits For A Better Social Life

These proven methods will quickly improve your social life.

Matt Lillywhite
3 min readApr 16, 2020
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Creating strong relationships is extremely difficult.

At least, that’s what a lot of introverts think right now. We tell ourselves that we want to make loads of new friends, find someone to love and spend the rest of our days living an incredibly happy life.

But whenever we fall short of expectations, we can’t help but think we’re not good enough, and that we’ll never be able to connect with people on a meaningful level.

I used to find it challenging to have a conversation with anyone. For example, I’d struggle to maintain eye contact, respond to a question, and many other things that made my social life a disaster.

But over the past few months, I’ve discovered that the best way to improve your relationships is by showing genuine interest in the other person when you’re having a conversation. As Dale Carnegie once said:

“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.”

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Matt Lillywhite
Matt Lillywhite

Written by Matt Lillywhite

Storyteller and part-time procrastinator. Writing to inspire, entertain, and avoid doing laundry. Substack: https://mattlillywhite.substack.com/subscribe

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