Social anxiety is completely normal. You're not weird. You were just never taught the people skills that make connecting with people easy.

Most people think that means making eye contact or having a firm handshake, but we've all had those moments where someone crushes your hand or stares into your soul, making the interaction even more awkward.

So in the next few minutes, I'm going to share

with you how to actually improve your people skills, even if you're an introvert like I was.

These are the strategies that took me from an awkward, nerdy programmer to raising money from

Mark Cuban and skiing with Richard Branson. So if you want to stop feeling awkward and start

connecting, this is how you do it.

Welcome to the Martel method.

I went from rehab at 17 to building a $100 million empire and being a Wall Street

Journal bestselling author.

In this podcast, I'll show you exactly how to build a life and business you don't grow to

hate.

My bestselling book, Buy Back Your Time is out now.

Grab a copy at Buybackyourtime.com

or at any of your preferred online retailers. Starting with remembering names. Now I know.

You're like, oh, I've heard this before. No, you haven't. Truth is, if you forget somebody's name

and you call them buddy, they're probably not going to like you. They definitely won't show you

any respect. And if you want respect from other people you must first show respect now i got this crazy idea for

how to remember names it'll make it foolproof for you i like to think of a weapon i would use to

kill them with their name i know this is weird but like for aaron it would be an axe for sam

it would be a saw.

And I play this little game in my head, and it's funny because making it so wild actually makes it really easy to remember. I don't know why. It's just a little trick. I've been doing it for a long time. No, I'm not a psychopath. I'm just telling you, somebody said it to me once, and I said, that's really smart. Now, I do have a backup because I literally meet thousands of people per month. I'm not even joking. I do social media events and there's hundreds of people

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