People Skills Decoded

I often say that the best way to better your life is to better yourself. With improved knowledge, skills, habits and attitudes, you can visibly enhance how you live and how happy you are (not necessarily in that order). To do this, it’s key to have a good understanding of how to better yourself as [...]

I write a social confidence newsletter which currently has over 10.000 subscribers. One frequent question I get from subscribers is: “What are some good comebacks to use when someone makes fun of you?” This question reminds me of my days in middle school and part of high school when me and my peers used to [...]

Note: You can now connect with me on Twitter and Facebook. Please do so. Any straight man, at one point or another in his life, will ask himself: “what do women want in a man?” And when he realizes he doesn’t truly have the answer, he’ll go searching for it. One of the most common [...]

If you are a personal development passionate, if you want to make the best out of your life, this is literally a once in a lifetime offer and I’m writing this post to let you know about it as soon as possible. Some of the best and the brightest personal development bloggers out there have [...]

In the realm of personal development, there are two things I passionately believe in: people skills as a worthy set of skills to develop and coaching as a worthy method to employ. I believe in coaching because I believe in the benefits of coaching. Coaching can take your personal development further and faster than any [...]

Low self esteem seems to be one of the most devastating psychological conditions alive. Millions of people struggle with low self esteem, as it sabotages their people skills, their social lives, their careers and almost every other area of their existence. Overcoming low self esteem can be done successfully. I’m going to touch on this [...]

One of my favorite comic book characters is Wolverine from X-Men. I find that accelerated healing power of his to be super-awesome. Now in real life, unless you’re a Navy SEAL or something, you won’t have much use for accelerated physical healing. However, I find that most people find tremendous value in accelerated emotional healing. [...]

An inferiority complex is a persistent feeling of being inferior to others in some way. It is usually connected with a real or imaginary shortcoming in physical appearance, intelligence, personality, education, social status or economic status. I believe that an inferiority complex is one of the nastiest psychological traits you can have. Seriously, it will [...]

Client: “I’ve always been lacking the confidence to speak up. In childhood, my parents were very harsh with me and would always criticize me when I opened my mouth. There was this one time when I was 9…” Me: “Aham (cough)… I don’t really need to know that. Give me an example of how this [...]

I’m not generally a big fan of quick fixes and claims of fast improvement, for people skills or any other soft skill. I believe that most of them ignore the natural level of practice and repetition learning requires and they usually over-promise. However, I think there is one smart, effective way to get relatively quick [...]