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How to be a more socially brave person when you are introverted?

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How to be a more socially brave person when you are introverted?

I'm 21 and in my 2nd semester of uni. The only reason I did okay so far, social wise, is because a very extroverted dude randomly started talking to me and introduced me to all of his friends. Then some other girl sat next to me in a lecture, made it very obvious that she likes me and we started dating. So I've been lucky so far, but I can't rely on that. I don't want uni to be like high school again, where I spent most days at home and only managed to be social because some extroverted popular people liked me for some reason.

I guess my fear is that if I randomly started talking to strangers they would be like "Why is that weirdo talking to me?". What should I do
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basically the extroverted Bro is also what happend to me and it is very helpful.

But to your question: There are quite a few mindsets that you can pick up, to help you.

1. In the grand scheme, it doesn't matter what you say to whom. Most communication does not matter at all. if you leave out sexual harassment, threats and insults, you can say anything and get away with it.
2. You need one skill to make this work: Learn to take a hint, when you are beeing obnoxious. If you are introverted, you have a headstart in this and can often times trust your feelings. But you can start out with cutting the conversation short.

3. If things don't work out right, or your senses are failing you, that is no problem either. Once was at a club, a group of girls is coming up next to the vip area in which I am, a girl is staring me down all the way of them coming up and past me, so I ask her, what she is looking at me like that. She just said "dont fucking touch me" when I wasn't even doing that and it felt kind of bad at first. But I coped with thinking, well her loss. And basically confirming number 1. There are no bad consequences to failing. hell she could have slaped me in the face and it would have been a funny story to tell my friends. She could have gotten me thrown out of the club and i would have laughed my ass of.

So it all boils down to one thing:
instead of beeing pessimistic, be optimistic and think positive and things will work out easier than you thought. Because negativity compells people while optimism pulls people towards you.
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>>18210678
Realize that your fear doesn't matter.

If they think that, you'll never talk to them again anyway.
If they don't think that, maybe you'll hit it off.

Someone not wanting to hang with you isn't a horrible thing, it just means they don't want to fit whatever reason. So why waste time caring about why they don't? Find people that do.
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>>18211025
Alright thanks

Any more advice on making friends in uni just in general?
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>>18212047
go with that extroverted bro, there is a reason, why scientists call this kind of people "socialisation hubs"

You will never, on your own, cross the path of so many different people as you do, if you hang out with extroverted bro.
Also people will get to know you at uni, if you hang out with him a lot. And things like hot girls knowing who you are, before you ever talked to them happens aswell, and that is a door opener like no other.

hang on to him, keep in contact. You won't have many opportunities like this later on.

Coming from an 28yo that might have only 3 real friends but got to a sizeable social circle through his extroverted bro.
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>>18212159
I totally will, he invites me to stuff after all
But besides that, I need to be independently capable of talking to people
I'm an introvert but even I understand that it's waste to not talk to anyone. I have lectures with hundreds of different people. Surely there will be some awesome dude or girl among them to make friends with
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