Kids who move schools a lot learn something others don’t: how to walk into a room cold.

Walking into a room where you know nobody is a skill, and it only ever gets built by having to do it. Most people avoid the situation often enough that it never becomes ordinary for them. Having been made to do it repeatedly, usually without wanting to, leaves you with something that keeps paying out at jobs, at camps, anywhere you arrive as the only new person. The cost came first.

Use it on purpose rather than letting it sit idle. Go to something this month where you know nobody, and be the one who speaks first.