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A comment on Ask HN: How do you practice social soft skills in real life?.

Re:Ask HN: How do you practice social soft skills in real life? by bingobongo1 on Saturday August 08, 2020 @07:13PM (#24095986)
Be genuine and kind instead of engineering situations.
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Re:Ask HN: How do you practice social soft skills in real life? by Smaug123 on Sunday August 09, 2020 @07:54AM (#24098996)
This works for people who naturally have good social skills, but as a way of obtaining practice it seems rather unactionable - rather like "Step 1: be attractive; step 2: don't be unattractive".
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Re:Ask HN: How do you practice social soft skills in real life? by bingobongo1 on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @12:39AM (#24117210)
It works for anyone who is honest and considerate of others.
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Re:Ask HN: How do you practice social soft skills in real life? by Smaug123 on Friday August 14, 2020 @06:21AM (#24156077)
No: it may work if you are honest (but know when the truth is harmful) and considerate of others (but are capable of telling when your attention is harmful). Mere good intention is nowhere near enough.
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