What helped me was going full-time digital nomad for the last 2 years. Mostly out of my desire to see specific places, I ended up going to cities very far away

What helped me was going full-time digital nomad for the last 2 years. Mostly out of my desire to see specific places, I ended up going to cities very far away from all of my existing contacts and acquaintances. Getting incredibly lonely in a foreign city where I don't speak the language and have no friends or coworkers, I was forced out into the wild to get to know people through any means possible. It was important for me to learn to connect quickly and deeply with people to have meaningful relationships fast enough to provide me any value before I moved on from that city to the next (about 2-3 months). I was terrible at it for the first 2 cities I went to, but by the 5th I was surprising myself.