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The whole 13 rules..

These 13 simple rules we explained in

 

the past chapters are the guidelines for

 

better social life from now on, win your

 

first meeting with anyone and you're

 

winning them forever!

 

But it's very important to let them

 

emerge from your heart, let them be the real you, all you've got to do is to apply

 

them once; and soon they will become a

 

part of your personality.

 

And to summarize the rules; the 13

 

simple rules are:

 

simple rules are:

 

Start any meeting with a simple

 

nice smile that spells welcome to

 

your speaker, and secretly tells

 

him that you are a friendly, nice

 

and trusted person.

 

and trusted person.

 

Keep a calm direct eye contact but

 

never stare. never stare. Stay within your speaker's social

 

territory (which is between 1.22 cm

 

and 3 meters), and avoid any

 

unnecessary physical contact.

 

unnecessary physical contact.

 

Do not offer a hand shake unless

 

you're of the same gender of your

 

speaker.

 

speaker.

 

Catch your speaker's name and

 

don't forget it. Then show them

 

that you remember it somehow

 

during or at the end of the

 

conversation.

 

conversation.

 

Don't talk too much about yourself;

 

introduce yourself properly in brief, then wait and let the

 

conversation lead you.

 

conversation lead you.

 

Do not ask personal questions or

 

make comments or demand any

 

kind of private details about your

 

speaker ever.

 

speaker ever.

 

Offer love you’ll gain love, and

 

choose to say only good and

 

positive words that make people

 

feel good.

 

feel good.

 

Be a good listener.

 

Be a good listener.

 

Don't joke unless it's called

 

for. Keep it as rare as possible, and

 

as authentic as possible too! as authentic as possible too! Be moderate in showing how

 

cultured you are, don't keep quite

 

but please don't turn into a human

 

encyclopedia!

 

encyclopedia!

 

Don't start by calling new people

 

by their first names unless you're

 

obviously superior to them. Until

 

he asks you to do so.

 

he asks you to do so.

 

Always control your temper even if you were strongly provoked.