Boost Your Conversational Skills: Try This Weekly Challenge!

Would you like to dramatically improve your conversational skills? Well, here's a technique I'm going to teach you. I warn you, it costs a lot now, not in terms of money, but in terms of taking you out of your comfort zone. Here's what I want you to do. One day a week. See this? Your cell phone. I want you to leave it at home. That's right. I want you to venture out into the world the way human beings did for a couple hundred thousand years, or without having every piece of information ever recorded by humans at your fingertips, without having a GPS at your fingertips, actually venturing out, you'll be much more likely to talk to people. You go to a party or an event, you can look at people and talk and not have this as a default. If you suddenly need information, directions, you can talk to a human being. If you're not sure what time it is, rather than checking your phone, you can ask someone with a watch on. Hey, pardon me, what time is it? Unfortunately, as great as the cell phone is, and I love mine, it becomes a crutch for many of us. With everything else we could possibly want to know in the world is right in here, it makes it easier to never talk to people out there. So leave it at home one day a week, or at least when you're going to a party tonight or an event, leave it at home. It's a security blanket that is unfortunately destroying a lot of conversational skills. Now be honest with me. Are you willing to try this? Please leave a comment below. Are you willing to try, even for an hour? I know some people would rather chop off their arm than leave their cell phone at home. Don't tell me that you don't feel safe with that and it's too risky. Somehow people survive for hundreds of thousands of years without having a cell phone on them every second of the day. So please give it a try and let me know how it goes. Please leave comments on the experiment if you decide to try it.