Kraichgauer wrote:
I would love to have his confidence in himself, despite his lack of social skills. Self confidence is something I've lacked most of my life, precisely because I am all too aware of my social awkwardness.
The less you care about making social mistakes, the more confident you become and the easier it gets to actually LEARN the rules and principles of social interaction. It is precisely by not caring about what people think of me for many years that I actually started to learn what they expect from me because it gave me the balls to experiment with social interaction and accept failure honorably rather than crawl into a corner and cry.