Talking to people is often useful for goals like “making friends” and “sharing new information you’ve learned” and “solving problems” and so on. If what conversation means (in most contexts and for most people) is ‘signaling that you repeatedly have interesting things to say’, it’s required to learn to do that in order to achieve your other goals.
Most games aren’t that intrinsically interesting, including most social games. But you gotta git gud anyway because they’re useful to be able to play well.
Hmm, the ‘making friends’ part seems the most important (since there are ways to share new information you’ve learned, or solve problems, beyond conversation), but it also seems a bit circular. Like, if the reason for making friends is to hang out and have good conversations(?), but one has little interest in having conversations, then doesn’t one have little reason to make friends in the first place, and therefore little reason to ‘git gud’ at the conversation game?
Er, friendship involves lots of things beyond conversation. People to support you when you’re down, people to give you other perspectives on your personal life, people to do fun activities with, people to go on adventures and vacations with, people to celebrate successes in your life with, and many more.
Good conversation is a lubricant for facilitating all of those other things, for making friends and sustaining friends and staying in touch and finding out opportunities for more friendship-things.
Talking to people is often useful for goals like “making friends” and “sharing new information you’ve learned” and “solving problems” and so on. If what conversation means (in most contexts and for most people) is ‘signaling that you repeatedly have interesting things to say’, it’s required to learn to do that in order to achieve your other goals.
Most games aren’t that intrinsically interesting, including most social games. But you gotta git gud anyway because they’re useful to be able to play well.
Hmm, the ‘making friends’ part seems the most important (since there are ways to share new information you’ve learned, or solve problems, beyond conversation), but it also seems a bit circular. Like, if the reason for making friends is to hang out and have good conversations(?), but one has little interest in having conversations, then doesn’t one have little reason to make friends in the first place, and therefore little reason to ‘git gud’ at the conversation game?
Er, friendship involves lots of things beyond conversation. People to support you when you’re down, people to give you other perspectives on your personal life, people to do fun activities with, people to go on adventures and vacations with, people to celebrate successes in your life with, and many more.
Good conversation is a lubricant for facilitating all of those other things, for making friends and sustaining friends and staying in touch and finding out opportunities for more friendship-things.