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December 2, 2022,
Do you like to talk?
You do? Good for you.
As important, do people like to hear you talk? Hopefully so, but if not, based upon your efforts, that could change with the needle pointing in the right direction.
It all depends upon your conversational skills.
As long as there are people near and around you for a purpose, you most likely will need to engage in conversation.
If you are the person who invited them there, you will need to engage in effective conversation.
How comfortable are you with talking to people?
If the answer is “not very”, there are myriads of solutions to solve that problem.
We will start with our own experience.
If we’ve been invited to a gathering, we’ve always found it easy to start with the weather.
“What a perfect day. Couldn’t ask for better weather.
You are dressed perfectly for it. Did you check the forecast ahead of time?”
What we’ve learned is to start with small talk and don’t ask personal questions.
We also like sports as well, without giving a strong opinion. Ask, do you like sports?
Most people do. Many have played in high school or college.
We completely avoid social issues, politics and religion.
We’re even careful about family questions because you don’t know what their family situation is. It could be fairly challenging and they are happy, for the moment, to escape it.
Now that’s just us.
Speaking of family, right now is the holiday season and you might be invited to Christmas dinner. On the surface you may think you can let your hair down and speak openly and honestly, and at some point in a private conversation, maybe you can, but early on, choosing your words carefully and not being overly familiar, even with family probably will serve you well.
Please pass the turkey. It smells and looks delicious.
If there is something you can compliment the person on, keep it simple and do that as well, especially if they work with you.
In life, whether it is at the dinner table with your family, standing around at work for a group meeting or enjoying a party, it will serve you well to learn how to converse.
Okay, that is a basic start. Time for some additional opinions.
The exceptional communicators at psychologytoday.com share, “Good conversation is truly remarkable. We need to anticipate the information needed by other people, provide enough context for what we say – but not too much – and understand quickly changing subjects and widely different perspectives.”
Well said.
Let’s walk over to the bookstore.
How to Talk to Anyone About Anything: Improve Your Social Skills, Master Small Talk, Connect Effortlessly, and Make Real Friends (Communication Skills Training) Paperback – March 24, 2021
By James W Williams (Author)
“Discover the Art of Masterful Conversations With this POWERFUL Guide!
Have you always struggled with making small talk and want to stop feeling awkward?
Do you wish to be able to tell stories where your listeners hang on to your every word?
Do you wish you had the courage, the confidence, and the charisma to meet new people and make friends with them?
If you’ve answered yes, this is the book for you!
How to Talk to Anyone About Anything: Improve Your Social Skills, Master Small Talk, Connect Effortlessly, and Make Real Friends is your complete guide to help you do just that.
The chapters within this book cover everything you need to know to fully embrace your true self and become the most enthralling conversationalist in ANY room!
With this powerful guide to becoming a better communicator, you will:
- Stand tall as you uncover your potential and harness the power of your confidence
- Hone your listening skills to establish stronger connections with everyone around you
- Ask the right questions and make seamless conversations with colleagues, bosses, and potential partners
- Make conversations and interactions less daunting using powerful tips on how you can master the art of small talk
- Find out how to tell, structure, and design amazing stories to tell people based on your own life experiences
- Become more confident and charismatic in every area of your life and watch as your relationships improve and your networks grow
- Strengthen relationships, whether it be for work or your personal life, and improve your overall wellbeing and success
- And so much more!
Every chapter within is broken down with easy-to-follow stories and information, laced with quick-fire facts and tips you can put into action right now. This means instant, positive changes from the moment you read the first chapter.
Even if you’ve always been the wallflower, with How to Talk to Anyone About Anything you will learn to improve your social skills, master small talk, connect effortlessly, and make real friends — wherever, whenever!
How to Talk to Anyone About Anything is the perfect guide for people looking to connect with people better!”
Sounds like fun.
Hopefully you like film and television. There are so many examples we could choose from to suggest that you should watch but one that we really enjoyed was the lead character in Emily In Paris.
Emily in Paris is an American-French romantic comedy television series created by Darren Star for Netflix.
Set and filmed in Paris, the series stars Lily Collins as aspiring marketing executive Emily Cooper, an American who moves to France to provide an American point of view to Savoir, a French marketing firm.
As you might guess, being a foreign girl in a strange and wonderful land with important job responsibilities, Emily needs to be a great conversationalist, with a smile and she does it so well.
We think you will enjoy the series, it was very entertaining for us, but watch it with a special eye on how Emily turns conversations potentially filled with lemons into bright and sparkling lemonade.
One of the most essential ingredients in turning lemons into lemonade is to be positive in speech.
Habits form early. The earlier you become comfortable conversing with strangers, the better you will get at it. There is a science and structure to good conversation skills.
Since you will do a ton of talking in your life, why not be exceptional at it?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_in_Paris
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/defining-memories/202203/what-makes-good-conversation
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