Calibration is the ability to adjust your actions so that you act within the presumed standards of your current company or environment.

Location, culture, and time of day all make a difference when it comes to what is deemed appropriate.

Knowing how to quickly adapt to an environment is a skill that requires social awareness. Analyze how others are behaving in your environment to ensure that your actions are within bounds.

You can learn to push these boundaries to learn what is really possible if you can simultaneously apply the concepts of calibration and empathy.

Every individual has a different comfort level when it comes to personal space, topics of discussion, and how quickly they are comfortable with an interaction escalating. Not only this, but all these things are also subject to change at any moment do to their environment, mood, and an infinite amount of other factors.

The first step is to concentrate on being aware of how you are making others feel. Periodically throughout social interactions, ask yourself the question: “How am I making this person feel?”

When you sense that you may have made someone uncomfortable through your words or actions, apologize for it.

Showing empathy is how a person corrects from a non-calibrated action or a misjudgment that made another person uncomfortable.

Showing empathy will help rectify the situation and put the other person at ease by demonstrating social awareness. People feel comfortable being around others who can read their emotions and do not pressure them into uncomfortable situations.

Apologize for making the other person uncomfortable, but do not feel shame or be apologetic for your interests, desires or who you are a person.

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