That is good advice.
A friend of mine video taped his conversations with people. (By which I mean, there was a video recording of some event, and he left it on following, to capture his social interactions.) In this way, he was able to see not just things he said, but also gauge people’s reactions to his body language. He said it was difficult to watch at first, but had a huge benefit to his social skills.
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