How to Impress Someone.

There are lots of reasons why you'd want to impress someone. Maybe you're looking to really show your girlfriend that you're husband material. Maybe you're new in town and looking to make friends. Maybe you just want to show your boss that you're ready for a promotion. No matter the reason, it's not that hard to impress someone with just a bit of work and a couple tricks.

Impressing A Friend or Acquaintance:

Step:1

Seek out new and interesting experiences:

Seek out new and interesting experiences

Being a champion couch sitter and avid prime time TV watcher is not going to impress anyone. Seek out new experiences and, preferably, do things that other people do not normally do. Impressing someone requires doing something that makes an impression. .

The best way to go about these experiences is to try to do the sort of things that you have always wanted to do. Trying to do something difficult that you do not care about will likely not succeed.

Be prepared for hard work. You will need to choose something that you care about enough to stick through difficulty. And there will be tough times--if it were easy, everyone would do it.

Do the right thing. Wanting to impress people is natural; we all want to stand out. But be sure what you are doing to impress others is not hurting yourself or other people. Trying to impress people with your shoplifting is a dangerous path, so is trying to impress others by taking reckless dares.

Step:2

Care about other people:

Care about other people

Everyone wants to be caring and do good things for other people but it's very easy to get swept up in our own lives and not follow through. If you're aware enough and work to make things better for other people, your friends and acquaintances will notice.

For example, being nice and supportive to vulnerable people and people whom others are usually rude to (like the disabled, door-to-door religious people, waiters, and the homeless) will really impress most people.

Step:3

Develop a talent:

 

Develop a talent

Talents are always impressive, often even when they're kind of dumb. You can hone skills you already have into full blown talents with a little work or you can try new things and develop the skills you've always wanted to have. Stop making excuses like "I'm not that kind of person" or "I'm not talented enough to try ____": just go out there and try. No one is good at things on the first go and really interesting skills take time to learn but learning them at all will impress most people.

For example, drawing is a good example of a talent which you can easily teach yourself and which does not require any kind of innate temperament or skill.

Learning to play the piano is also relatively easy and doesn’t take a lot of money to get started. Buy a cheap, used keyboard and start teaching yourself using our guide and some Youtube videos.

Try learning origami. This is a relatively simple skill to start learning but it looks very impressive very quickly. It also means that you’ll always have a cheap gift to give someone in a pinch.

Step:4

Try to be well-informed:

Try to be well-informed

Stay up to date on the important news and political developments in order to be aware and ready to go when people start discussing those topics. You'll be able to chime in and join the conversation or even fill people in on aspects that they didn't know or understand.[1] This will impress them.

Being well informed is useful because it doesn't require you to be super smart. Reading the newspaper and trying to understand politics doesn't require being a genius. But your knowledge and information can help other people make smart decisions in addition to putting you in a favorable light.

Just remember to always be curious and skeptical. Always question everything. People make mistakes and it's possible that what you have read or believed in the past has since turned out to be wrong.

Step:5

Be humble:

Be humble

Of course, as you do all of these awesome things to impress people, you have to remember to be humble. Don’t brag or rub it in people’s faces that you do all these things. In fact, try not to tell them outright at all. Instead, let them see you doing these things in a normal way. This will make it seem more natural and also let you show off without looking like a jerk.

For example, when your friend invites you to a party, say something like, “I’ll try to make it but I usually volunteer at the church on Friday nights. I might have to be a bit late.”

When you're going to meet them somewhere, show up early. Start doing an impressive activity like reading a classic novel or practicing guitar. They'll catch you "in the act" and be impressed. You don't even have to say anything.