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How to Talk to Anyone: 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships
Leil Lowndes
Never be at a loss for words again!Perfect your people skills with his fun, witty and informative guide, containing 92 little tricks to create big success in personal and business relationships.In How To Talk To Anyone, bestselling relationships author and internationally renowned life coach Leil Lowndes reveals the secrets and psychology behind successful communication. These extremely usable and intelligent techniques include how to:• Work a party like a politician works a room• Be an insider in any crowd• Use key words and phrases to guide the conversation• Use body language to connectThis is the key to having successful conversations with anyone, any time.
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ALSO BY LEIL LOWNDES (#ulink_eda8fe8e-ab7f-5397-bb24-47f39d3954ad)
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Contents
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Title Page (#ulink_178d490e-6faa-53ef-937d-4ed9577a5804)
Copyright (#ulink_e18cbb63-c3db-5335-b256-48d56290a2b8)
Also by Leil Lowndes (#ulink_36ba253e-ea2b-5206-9563-67f62ee5c272)
Preface: Having it all (#u300d7c1f-6e92-59c8-8907-e5a0560eafcd)
Part One: You only have ten seconds to show you’re a somebody
The incredible, inescapable, unique essence of you
1 The flooding smile (#ulink_fa0168b9-69ad-526b-8e3a-c27694a3658a)
2 Sticky eyes (#ulink_ca3d90ce-22ab-5658-8469-43a0948e2720)
3 Epoxy eyes (#ulink_46b2cfd7-057f-5466-bad9-4e4440c01efa)
4 Hang by your teeth (#ulink_8ef3be8e-b179-56c7-b5f4-feab31d0b281)
5 The big-baby pivot
6 Hello old friend
7 Limit the fidget
8 Hans’s horse sense
9 Watch the scene before you make the scene
Part Two: What do I say after I say ‘hello’?
Small talk, your verbal welcome mat
10 The mood match
11 Prosaic with passion
12 Always wear a Whatzit
13 Whoozat?
14 Eavesdrop in
15 Never the naked city
16 Never the naked job
17 Never the naked introduction
18 Be a word detective
19 The swivelling spotlight
20 Parroting
21 Encore!
22 Ac-cen-tu-ate the pos-i-tive
23 The latest news … don’t leave home without it
Part Three: How to talk like the big boys ’n’ girls
Welcome to the human jungle
24 What do you do – NOT!
25 The nutshell resume
26 Your personal thesaurus
27 Kill the quick ‘me, too!’
28 Comm-YOU-nication
29 The exclusive smile
30 Don’t touch a cliché with a ten-foot pole
31 Use jawsmith’s jive
32 Call a spade a spade
33 Trash the teasing
34 It’s the receiver’s ball
35 The broken record
36 Big shots don’t slobber
37 Never the naked thank you
Part Four: How to be an insider in any crowd
What are they all talking about?
38 Scramble therapy
39 Learn a little Gobbledygook
40 Baring their hot button
41 Read their rags
42 Clear ‘custom’
43 Bluffing for bargains
Part Five: Why, we’re just alike!
We’re like peas in a pod
44 Be a copycat
45 Echoing
46 Potent imaging
47 Employ empathizers
48 Anatomically correct empathizers
49 The premature we
50 Instant history
Part Six: The power of praise, the folly of flattery
Praise reappraised
51 Grapevine glory
52 Carrier pigeon kudos
53 Implied magnificence
54 Accidental adulation
55 The killer compliment
56 Little strokes
57 The knee-jerk ‘wow!’
58 Boomeranging
59 The tombstone game
