Learn How To Boast About Yourself

Science has determined how to brag successfully: “[T]o pull off a successful boast, you need it to be appropriate to the conversation. If your friend, colleague, or date raises the topic, you can go ahead and pull a relevant boast in safety. Alternatively, if you’re forced to turn the conversation onto the required topic then you must succeed in provoking a question from your conversation partner. If there’s no question and you raised the topic then any boast you make will leave you looking like a big-head.” Okay! I mean, didn’t we know that already? Oh, you didn’t? Well, no big deal. I’m glad that we’ve got Science on the case to help us all learn. What? Oh, well, I guess I just knew it intuitively, but I’m kind of lucky that way in that I have a good sense of how to have a conversation with really smart people like yourself. [Via]