Becoming a People Person

A buddy told me on AIM that he went to some random bar last weekend and talked to like 15 or so random people that he never met before in order to practice to make himeself become a more and more outgoing person...

It makes me start thinking...Am I a people person? What is the passing bar of being social? Am I just in the gray area between anti-social and social?

If social mean be able to speak to any random person comfortably, and mingle with any groups of ppl, i would say i am not there yet. It always took me a while to warm up to ppl. I don't tend to talking with strangers, because i don't feel like tasting my time talking to ppl i may never meet again?

I am definitely not anti-social either, because i do like talk to friends, or ppl i know to learn from them and see what their perspective on things. And I like hung out with old friends and make some new friends once a while.

My buddy and I both agree that in this world to be successful you have to be a people person. So does it worth to change myself to be sucessful? Would i be happy still once i become sucessful, but realize i am no longer the same me i was once?

Anyone who can tell me?