1) Introduce yourself as yourself. Not the best possible version of yourself and not the worst, just you being you.
2) Don't smell offensively
3) Don't be creepy
4) Wherever you are, be there for what's going on there. If you are at a concert, be there for the music. No one at that concert went there to hear your views on vaccinations, how much the country sucks, health care, or whether or not Elon Musk is sane.
5) Get involved with a group that enjoys doing what you enjoy doing - it's the age of the internet, the greatest time to be alive in the whole history of civilization. 15 minutes on Google researching local groups that are comprised of people who like what you like will get results - tens to hundreds to thousands to millions of results (seriously, I just googled "chair collecting" and got 60,300,000 results in 0.79 seconds - did you know Brad Pitt is a chair collector?)
6) Go back to school, no matter how old you are - never to late to learn something new and make new school chums.
7) Learn to read people - if you introduce yourself to someone who instantly treats you with disdain, politely move on. Do not waste your time, energy or efforts trying to win someone over because you think they are supercool. No, they're not.
8) Do not overshare. You know what I mean
9) Do not start a conversation then dominate the conversation. Conversations are give and take, not you just speaking to people.
10) Play nice
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