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Originally Posted by sarahsweets
I guess what I meant was social skills force you to interact with others which can take the focus off of ourselves. Which I believe helps at least a little with compassion and empathy. I am not sure how social skills could make you less empathetic or compassionate if that is what you meant. Like it or not when we have anxieties, fear and rumination, very often we are self absorbed. I dont mean that its selfish or egocentric just that we are thinking about ourselves and how we feel and its very hard to focus on ourselves if we are interacting with others.
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Put 3 sociable people together. What would happen? Yes all would interact with each others, but not to listen to each others, but to make others listen to him/her, and social skills would be used to bring attention to oneself. I know some outgoing people who cannot be more egocentric and arrogant and overconfident even when they don't know anything. They try to prove themselves everywhere they sit. My point is that social skills are important to life, but it's also illusive and superficial in most cases. In that sense it's underrated and overrated at the same time. But most humans like it because it is a way how their egos meet.