Social Circle Power

Could there be a Good Side to the Feeling of Loneliness? Is there a biological “reason” why we feel pain when we’re not connecting with people?
Well, according to recent scientific research,…

Even the popular guys are in trouble. I hear story after story of people who had a wonderful social life… until they left college, or until they moved to a new city. Now, popular people complain about how facebook…

How can you make new friends FAST?
Over the years, I used many techniques to meet and connect with new friends. Recently, I tried to answer the question : What’s THE QUICKEST way to make new friends?

It boils down to a simple choice : whether you are Individual-Focused, or Group-Focused.
This is what I call having “Group Edge”. Basically, you should build or join cliques or groups of friends. And NOT just…

When you’re good friends with someone, you don’t have to think about what you’re getting from vs. what you’re contributing to the other person. But, when you want to form a new friendship, you have to know “what’s going on” in terms of value exchange.

I wanna share with you a story that happened to me recently. I was at a friend’s house. I knew him from around two years.
He lived in a different city than mine, so we didn’t meet frequently. We went out a

Hey, When you want to make friends, there’s definitely a NEED for you to reach out to people. Many of your “stuff” may or may not get in your way… like shyness, hesitation and negative self-talk. But you gonna need some balls to go do what you wanna do; Talk to who ever you want to ; [...]

I first came across this concept by reading a great book by Keith Ferrazzi, “Who’s Got your back”. Keith calls them “life-line relationships”.
It’s the type of relationship you have with someone you feel that you can discuss anything with. You can

The answer is… it depends. It depends on A : how many friends she has? and B : can you create relationships with her friends? The biggest block you may encounter is that you would ask yourself : “If I make friends with her friends, and then we break up, the new friendships may just die. Maybe I’ll [...]

One great way to know if a friendship is going in the right direction is to notice how much energy each person is investing.

Energy can mean how much each one of you is