Best of “How To”: Make Small Talk

How to Know What’s Real

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Education, Self-improvement, Science, Social Sciences, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 30 December 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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This new season of How To is a collection of our favorite episodes from past seasons—a best-of series focused on slowing down, making space, and finding meaning in our hectic lives. This episode is the last in the collection and is from our fourth season, How to Talk to People. The episode features host Julie Beck in conversation with hairstylists and self-described socially anxious people about how they overcome the barriers to starting conversations and building relationships. Write to us at [email protected]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Megan Garber, one of the co-hosts of How to Know What's Real.
0:07.0	We're excited to share with you a special series drawn from past seasons of the how-to series.
0:13.0	For the last six weeks, we've been revisiting episodes around the theme of winding down.
0:19.0	This episode is our last in this series, and one of my personal
0:23.2	favorites. It's from season four, How to Talk to People, and is called How to Make Small
0:28.9	Talk. Take a listen as former host Julie Beck and producer Becca Rashid, talk with experts from
0:35.9	hairstylists to self-describe socially anxious people
0:39.5	about how they work on letting go of social anxiety.
0:47.4	Okay, so we'll sit here.
0:49.4	We'll start like usual and talk about what you want to do with your hand.
0:53.3	Right, yeah, like I do need to.
0:54.9	Because he's a haircut.
0:57.2	Yeah.
0:58.2	Does this moment feel awkward to you?
1:02.0	It doesn't, so I don't know if it should.
1:04.4	Great news.
1:05.0	Great news.
1:06.6	If I'm in a five-minute conversation, I am like, what am I going to say next?
1:11.6	What's the next thing that I should?
1:14.0	Did I already talk about the weather?
1:15.2	Did I already?
1:15.7	And then I get real panicked.
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