How To Talk To Anyone
92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships
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92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships
Ratings31
Average rating3
“You’ll not only break the ice, you’ll melt it away with your new skills.” — Larry King“The lost art of verbal communication may be revitalized by Leil Lowndes.” — Harvey McKay, author of “How to Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive”What is that magic quality makes some people instantly loved and respected? Everyone wants to be their friend (or, if single, their lover!) In business, they rise swiftly to the top of the corporate ladder. What is their “Midas touch?”What it boils down to is a more skillful way of dealing with people.The author has spent her career teaching people how to communicate for success. In her book How to Talk to Anyone (Contemporary Books, October 2003) Lowndes offers 92 easy and effective sure-fire success techniques— she takes the reader from first meeting all the way up to sophisticated techniques used by the big winners in life. In this information-packed book you’ll find:9 ways to make a dynamite first impression14 ways to master small talk, “big talk,” and body language14 ways to walk and talk like a VIP or celebrity6 ways to sound like an insider in any crowd7 ways to establish deep subliminal rapport with anyone9 ways to feed someone’s ego (and know when NOT to!)11 ways to make your phone a powerful communications tool15 ways to work a party like a politician works a room7 ways to talk with tigers and not get eaten aliveIn her trademark entertaining and straight-shooting style, Leil gives the techniques catchy names so you’ll remember them when you really need them, including: “Rubberneck the Room,” “Be a Copyclass,” “Come Hither Hands,” “Bare Their Hot Button,” “The Great Scorecard in the Sky,” and “Play the Tombstone Game,” for big success in your social life, romance, and business.How to Talk to Anyone, which is an update of her popular book, Talking the Winner’s Way (see the 5-star reviews of the latter)is based on solid research about techniques that work!By the way, don’t confuse How to Talk to Anyone with one of Leil’s previous books, How to Talk to Anybody About Anything. This one is completely different!
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Not only are these common knowledge and some downright rude but the author's reading on the audiobook is awful. I literally listened to it on 2x speed just to tone down her condescending tone.
Horrible, horrible and even more horrible. Takes a dig at why Dale Carnegie's book just doesn't cut it in almost every chapter.
The book is full of insincere recommendations which will backfire on you (unless, perhaps you are a alpha male or a blonde white female)
The author seems to not understand anything about other cultures and keep referring Japan to “Asia” while exemplifies English speaking world as vast with lots of cultural differences. Differences so vast that somebody she met couldn't understand that she wanted a sofa (should have been called a pop)
She also claims that Japanese people take their lives to save faces. I think she is referring to seppuku, which was a tradition in 12th - 16th century
Lots of practical non-trivial advice. Lots of parts where I realized I've been accidentally impolite but didn't realize. Or found someone else annoying but couldn't figure out what it was about them. Also I never really thought about the impact this will all have on your daily livelihood.
Enjoyed enough that I should look into more from this author.
