So I guess he's on a cruise somewhere. So I've been practicing meeting people and having conversations. It's amazing how rules-based all of this is and how easy it is after you learn them.

Does that sound familiar? It's the Dale Carnegie thing I've been telling you forever. Yeah, what Dale Carnegie teaches you is that social interaction is rules-based. You just follow the rules. But if you didn't know the rules you'd be like, oh my God, I don't know what to say, what to do, what do I do with my hands, do I keep talking, do I let myself go? It's rules-based. Once you learn the rules it's really easy and it takes about five minutes to learn all the rules of human interaction. Introduce yourself, use the person's name, look in their eyes, ask questions about them, show genuine interest, and when you're done say something like, well I need to get back to whatever, or I need to get back to mixing. I need to do a little more mixing. Got to refresh my drink. That's it. If you just do those things you're done.

But I was interested that apparently the course that the Prince of Fakes took encouraged you to try to go for the hug even in situations where you don't think it's appropriate. Imagine that. Could you do that? Could you practice as homework offering to hug people you just met? Now apparently the Prince of Fakes, now remember he's on a cruise ship so everybody on cruise ships is in relaxed mode, you know, nobody's in business mode. And apparently he's just offering hugs to people and he's being shocked and amazed at how often people will, even if they seem uncomfortable, will still e