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Part 2: Master Conversation and Social Skills
You’ll learn how to talk confidently, whether or not you were confident in the past. – page 63
How to start conversations with strangers and make them feel like you’re someone they know well. – page 64
Why some conversation starters work, while others don’t and what’s the difference that makes the difference. – page 66
How to hold someone’s attention when you first meet them. – page 67
How to start and end conversations as you please without coming across as rude and unfriendly. – page 67
How to know what’s stopping you from talking for as long as you want and how to free yourself from these things and make conversations last as long as you want. – page 68
How to keep a conversation going, and never run out of things to say, without having to “work†at it. – page 70
There are some specific topics to talk about at FIRST, that make other people want to get to know you and make friends with you. Learn about them on page 72
How to use other people’s stories in your own conversations in a way that makes you sound interesting, even if those stories have nothing to do with you. – page 73
How to go from subject to subject, potentially forever. And to draw the link between conversation topics, no matter unrelated they seem to be. – page 74
A universal technique used and shared by Dale Carnegie (in 1930’s) that is SO good that it still works today. This technique makes anyone you talk to want to stick around and share more about themselves. At the end of the conversation, they won’t feel that they talked more than you. Instead they’ll think that you’re an amazing conversationalist, even if THEY were doing most of the talking. Grab this technique on page 75.
How to USE silence in conversation to make everyone feel comfortable and optimistic, instead of feeling awkward. – page 76
A quick way to practice small talk. This will make you do small talk much better than average people. (you can do this the very next time you get out of the house) – get it on page 76
How to make two people that you know, talk to each other, so you won’t have to do all the talking. That will also enable you to walk away and talk to someone else if you want. – page 77
How to have conversations in a group in a way that makes you QUICKLY FIT IN. And how to AVOID being interrupted and make the people in the group like you on the first day you show up. – page 78
How to get in the mood for conversation, get talkative and be more outgoing. This works even if you had a bad day and even if you spent a whole week not talking to anyone. It makes you snap back to a social mode. – page 79
Some people seem to attract the most amount of friends. Everyone wants to be friends with them and that’s because everyone sees them as “coolâ€. You’ll learn WHAT the elements behind “coming across as coolâ€. You can start integrating those elements in your life today, and attract more friends. Learn it on page 82
How to be funny and fun to be around, so people like you and crave your presence. – page 92
What to NEVER do, when making a funny joke. I call this section “humor do’s and don’tsâ€â€¦ some of these mistakes can have the opposite effect (they repel people), so we have to be careful. Learn more on page 96
The 44 worst socially awkward mistakes you need to STOP DOING RIGHT NOW. They weird people out and make them want to get the hell out of there ASAP. – page 97
How to come across as interesting and avoid coming across as a boring person. – page 101
How to not only be interesting but come across as interesting to the specific friends you would love to hang out with – page 101
How to become interesting in the long run (for life) on page 102
How to get your life to be MORE FUN, without “sweating at itâ€. – page 102
How to make fun plans in seconds, instead of minutes or hours. Without too much preparation, you’ll be able to make plans ON-THE-SPOT