I learned to be brazen.

Interesting. How, at a baseball game, I sometimes hardly talk to the strangers sitting around me. But at other times, we talk to each other. Exchange pleasantries. And we get to know each other to some minor degree. But there's no predicting the degree of sociability on a given day at the ballpark. Usually, I just wait to feel the vibes. Some days I initiate the contact. But most of the time, I let the others take the lead. To make the first move. Not always. But far more often than not. Maybe I'm shy. At least, I used to be. But as a writer for newspapers, I learned to be brazen. If that helped me get the story. --Jim Broede