I started the challenge 90 strangers 30 days, 2 weeks ago, and I have talked to 101 strangers so far!

I’ve always been shy and frustrated about my social life but I decided to ignore it and accept my situation. I thought that things were gonna be better during college but I missed out of oportunities because I didn’t socialized enough.
A couple of months back I ran into a Ted talk from Andrew Elsass that talks about his challenge and his take aways (his original post explaining his challenge was actually published here 9 years ago) and got interested by the project. After going through a depression I decided to try the challenge hoping to get better, honestly it is really improving my mood, I could even say that my depression is gone.
I’ve been doing the challenge for 15 days now and talked to 101 strangers, and it’s changing my life: i’m not scared to talk to strangers anymore, whenever I have to say something I can say it, now I enjoy attention, I talk easier to people that I know, my social anxiety is disappearing and i’m learning to have deeper and more spontaneous conversations.

I started the challenge with a friend. We meet every day at the same time, and we split for an hour to talk to people. We meet at the end to do a debriefig. It helps me a lot with perseverance. In my data sheet I’m only counting the conversations I had during that hour.

From the 101 conversations I’ve had, only 10 of them were good quality exchanges.

Ps. Thank you, Andrew!