How to Deal With an Unsupportive Environment

When you start living your own life, making your own decisions, you will often get to a point where a decision you make will get rejected by others. For example you might choose to leave your job in order to become self-employed. However, your parents are against that decision. They don’t understand why you would want to give up the stability and security of having a job and trade it for the...

How To Connect With Strangers And Be Likeable

No matter how outgoing we are or not, we all meet new people once in a while. The problem many people have is this: They don’t know how to connect with a stranger once the basic connection is established. That’s why they fail to make real connections with new people and find new friends. They don’t know what to say or how to behave. While the content, the speed and the structure of each...

How to Survive a Break-Up

When I went through my first break-up I was surprised that I got along so well – my past self hadn’t been very good at handling heartache. So when I was going through my first break-up I immediately took action in order to get through the pain as unscathed as I could. This worked out very good for me. After a relatively short period of time I had gotten back to my normal emotional...

Don’t Hide Your Weirdness

Do you sometimes think you’re weird? Do you have strange hobbies or a rare perspective on the world? Do you have extraordinary habits? Do you sometimes feel like you’re from an alien planet because what you think, want and do seems to be different from what everybody else is thinking, wanting and doing? If you feel like you’re weird, you basically have two choices: 1) Hide your...

Why People Are Important

If you’re an introvert like me, you might know the thought that “other people aren’t that important”. Or at least that “friends aren’t so important”. And that you can be just fine (or even very happy) on your own. So why surround yourself with people at all? And why ever make an effort to meet somebody new? I’ve lived both lives: The life without people and the life with people....