CalmNearEnd comments on Group rationality diary, 5/14/12 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: CalmNearEnd 15 May 2012 01:24:23PM 18 points [-]

Hello, I'm Dean! I just attended the minicamp, and this is my first post.

On my flight back I started talking to the guy beside me, which is something I wouldn't usually do. I've wanted to talk to the person beside me on the flight before and it hasn't happened because I got nervous. This time I used a trigger to perform a next action. The trigger was getting to my seat and the action was saying hello to my seat mate BEFORE I sat down. It worked well because for me the hardest part of talking to a stranger is making the first move.

He was a chemical engineer and we shared amazing conversation for the whole flight.

Comment author: james_edwards 19 May 2012 09:20:17AM 0 points [-]

Nice work Dean!