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Book Principles of Likability

Download or read book Principles of Likability written by Patrick King and published by PublishDrive. This book was released on 2019-09-04 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Small changes for big results in your social life, presence, and relationships. Learn how to be captivating, memorable, and magnetic. Likability is one of the most important traits you’ll ever learn. It’s more important than your intelligence, looks, status, wealth, prestige, or education. Likability is the true currency of life. Do you seem to fade from people’s memory as soon as the conversation ends? Banish those feelings of rejection and dejection. Principles of Likability investigates the aspect of human nature that affects us the most - what makes us drawn to someone without our even realizing it? This is what we strive for everyday, and it can make or break our moods. Likability - what is it and how can we achieve it consistently? Use the principles laid out in this book and you’ll wonder no more. Make a powerful first impression and build a thriving social circle. Patrick King is an internationally bestselling author and social skills coach. His writing draws of a variety of sources, from scientific research, academic experience, coaching, and real life experience. He has taught the art of becoming likable for years and only writes about real tactics that have been proven to work. Utilize the subconscious causes of likability and charm. •Simple everyday decisions to be more likable. •Why conventional advice about focusing on others is flawed. •How to actually listen - a unique and different approach. •What value has to do with your likability and charm. Become pursued and sought out instead of ignored and forgotten. •Why being shallow isn’t always bad, and is actually valuable. •What abrasiveness is and why it’s more powerful than likability. •How to become worthy of being liked as second nature. Likability has the power to take you anywhere you want in life.

Book Principles of Likability  Skills for a Memorable First Impression  Captivating Presence  and Instant Friendships

Download or read book Principles of Likability Skills for a Memorable First Impression Captivating Presence and Instant Friendships written by Patrick King and published by . This book was released on 2018-04-08 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Small changes for big results in your social life, presence, and relationships. Learn how to be captivating, memorable, and magnetic.Likability is one of the most important traits you'll ever learn. It's more important than your intelligence, looks, status, wealth, prestige, or education. Likability is the true currency of life.Do you seem to fade from people's memory as soon as the conversation ends? Banish those feelings of rejection and dejection.Principles of Likability investigates the aspect of human nature that affects us the most - what makes us drawn to someone without our even realizing it? This is what we strive for everyday, and it can make or break our moods. Likability - what is it and how can we achieve it consistently? Use the principles laid out in this book and you'll wonder no more.Make a powerful first impression and build a thriving social circle.Patrick King is an internationally bestselling author and social skills coach. His writing draws of a variety of sources, from scientific research, academic experience, coaching, and real life experience. He has taught the art of becoming likable for years and only writes about real tactics that have been proven to work.Utilize the subconscious causes of likability and charm.*Simple everyday decisions to be more likable.*Why conventional advice about focusing on others is flawed.*How to actually listen - a unique and different approach.*What value has to do with your likability and charm.Become pursued and sought out instead of ignored and forgotten.*Why being shallow isn't always bad, and is actually valuable.*What abrasiveness is and why it's more powerful than likability.*How to become worthy of being liked as second nature.Likability has the power to take you anywhere you want in life.Life is full of gatekeepers, like it or not. Your skill won't open those doors, and neither will your brains. People do things for people they like - your likability is the ultimate shortcut through life's obstacles and gatekeepers. Become friends with everyone you come across and your social, professional, and romantic lives will become that much easier.Make an impression and become memorable -- click the BUY NOW button at the top of this page!

Book The 11 Laws of Likability

Download or read book The 11 Laws of Likability written by Michelle Tillis Lederman and published by AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn. This book was released on 2012 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all know that networking is important, and that forming relationships with others is a vital part of success. But sometimes it seems like networking removes all emotions from the equation and focuses only on immediate goals whereas the kind of relationships that have true staying power, give us joy, and support us in the long run are founded on simply liking each other. This book, featuring activities, self-assessment quizzes, and real-life anecdotes from professional and social settings, shows readers how to identify whats likable in themselves and create honest, authentic interactions.

Book Popular

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mitch Prinstein
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2017-06-06
  • ISBN : 0399563741
  • Pages : 306 pages

Download or read book Popular written by Mitch Prinstein and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A leading psychologist examines how our popularity affects our success, our relationships, and our happiness—and why we don’t always want to be the most popular No matter how old you are, there’s a good chance that the word “popular” immediately transports you back to your teenage years. Most of us can easily recall the adolescent social cliques, the high school pecking order, and which of our peers stood out as the most or the least popular teens we knew. Even as adults we all still remember exactly where we stood in the high school social hierarchy, and the powerful emotions associated with our status persist decades later. This may be for good reason. Popular examines why popularity plays such a key role in our development and, ultimately, how it still influences our happiness and success today. In many ways—some even beyond our conscious awareness—those old dynamics of our youth continue to play out in every business meeting, every social gathering, in our personal relationships, and even how we raise our children. Our popularity even affects our DNA, our health, and our mortality in fascinating ways we never previously realized. More than childhood intelligence, family background, or prior psychological issues, research indicates that it’s how popular we were in our early years that predicts how successful and how happy we grow up to be. But it’s not always the conventionally popular people who fare the best, for the simple reason that there is more than one type of popularity—and many of us still long for the wrong one. As children, we strive to be likable, which can offer real benefits not only on the playground but throughout our lives. In adolescence, though, a new form of popularity emerges, and we suddenly begin to care about status, power, influence, and notoriety—research indicates that this type of popularity hurts us more than we realize. Realistically, we can’t ignore our natural human social impulses to be included and well-regarded by others, but we can learn how to manage those impulses in beneficial and gratifying ways. Popular relies on the latest research in psychology and neuroscience to help us make the wisest choices for ourselves and for our children, so we may all pursue more meaningful, satisfying, and rewarding relationships.

Book The Likeability Factor

Download or read book The Likeability Factor written by Tim Sanders and published by Harmony. This book was released on 2005-04-05 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you wondering how you can improve your relationships with your friends and family? Are you curious how to get or keep the job of your dreams? Do you want to become a more popular person? This book will show you how to do all that by raising your likeability factor—or how much other people like you. After all, life is a series of popularity contests. The choices other people make about you determine your health, wealth, and happiness. And decades of research prove that people choose who they like. They vote for them, they buy from them, they marry them, and they spend precious time with them. The good news is that you can arm yourself for the contest and win life’s battles for preference. How? By being likeable. The more you are liked—or the higher your likeability factor—the happier your life will be. This book will show you how to raise that likeability factor by teaching you how to boost four critical elements of your personality: •Friendliness: your ability to communicate liking and openness to others •Relevance: your capacity to connect with others’ interests, wants, and needs •Empathy: your ability to recognize, acknowledge, and experience other people’s feelings •Realness: the integrity that stands behind your likeability and guarantees its authenticity What happens when you improve in these areas and boost your likeability factor? •You bring out the best in others •You survive life’s challenges •You have better health—and even improve others’ health, too •You outperform in your daily roles •You win the popularity contests that define your life Join me for a few hours and I’ll share the results of hundreds of thousands of pages of research, numerous seminars, and hundreds of interviews with people just like you! Together let’s build our likeability factor and improve our lives! Also available as a Random House AudioBook

Book The Science of Likability

Download or read book The Science of Likability written by Patrick King and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 100% scientific and proven ways to make friends quickly, turn enemies into friends, gain trust, and be flat-out likable.Some of the most interesting, shocking, and counterintuitive scientific conclusions to simply make people want to be around you.In The Science of Likability, you'll get all that and more. I've taken 27 seminal scientific and psychological studies and broken them down so you can use their findings to your advantage. Every piece of advice in this book to increase your social standing and likability factor is 100% backed by in-depth, peer-reviewed research.Learn how subconsciously make yourself seem likable, trustworthy, and intelligent.You can get a new haircut and wardrobe, and you even learn funny jokes. But likability is something more. It's subconscious, and it's the small signs that signal our brains to let their guards down and embrace others. Learn what common sense and intuition doesn't teach you.Analysis and insight from the best in the business.From Freud, to Cialdini, to Pavlov, to Schachter, to Goleman, these studies are insightful, analytical, sometimes surprising, but most importantly effective and actionable. Pair that with the insight and human intelligence factor of bestselling author and social skills coach Patrick King, and you have a guide that can be read equally for education as for helpful, real advice.Small and subtle actions, big results.- Chapter 1. How to Improve People's Moods.- Chapter 2. How to Turn Enemies into Friends.- Chapter 6. How to Gain Trust and Credibility.- Chapter 7. How to Work Well With Others.Understand what makes people tick.- Chapter 8. How to be More Endearing.- Chapter 10. How to Lead Anyone.- Chapter 11. How to Avoid Being Judged.- Chapter 13. How to be Funny and Charismatic.Being likable unlocks the doors to everything you want in life.A better career? You better believe that the people with the most promotions and highest salaries aren't just the most qualified. Better love life? Being likable keeps you a potential date to anyone you want. Better relationships and friendships? Not only that, but you open the door to people wanting to be friends with you. Likability is the hidden force that makes people appear to be lucky in life and receive more opportunities than they know what to do with.Change how people feel your presence. Pick up your copy today by clicking the BUY NOW button at the top of this page.

Book Influence

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert B. Cialdini
  • Publisher : Pearson Scott Foresman
  • Release : 1988
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 434 pages

Download or read book Influence written by Robert B. Cialdini and published by Pearson Scott Foresman. This book was released on 1988 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Influence: Science and Practice is an examination of the psychology of compliance (i.e. uncovering which factors cause a person to say "yes" to another's request) and is written in a narrative style combined with scholarly research. Cialdini combines evidence from experimental work with the techniques and strategies he gathered while working as a salesperson, fundraiser, advertiser, and other positions, inside organizations that commonly use compliance tactics to get us to say "yes". Widely used in graduate and undergraduate psychology and management classes, as well as sold to people operating successfully in the business world, the eagerly awaited revision of Influence reminds the reader of the power of persuasion. Cialdini organizes compliance techniques into six categories based on psychological principles that direct human behavior: reciprocation, consistency, social proof, liking, authority, and scarcity. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Book The Likeability Trap

Download or read book The Likeability Trap written by Alicia Menendez and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Be nice, but not too nice. Be successful, but not too successful. Just be likeable. Whatever that means? Women are stuck in an impossible bind. At work, strong women are criticized for being cold, and warm women are seen as pushovers. An award-winning journalist examines this fundamental paradox and empowers readers to let go of old rules and reimagine leadership rather than reinventing themselves. Consider that even competent women must appear likeable to successfully negotiate a salary, ask for a promotion, or take credit for a job well done—and that studies show these actions usually make them less likeable. And this minefield is doubly loaded when likeability intersects with race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and parental status. Relying on extensive research and interviews, and carefully examined personal experience, The Likeability Trap delivers an essential examination of the pressure put on women to be amiable at work, home, and in the public sphere, and explores the price women pay for internalizing those demands. Rather than advising readers to make themselves likeable, Menendez empowers them to examine how they perceive themselves and others and explores how the concept of likeability is riddled with cultural biases. Our demands for likeability, she argues, hinder everyone’s progress and power. Inspiring, thoughtful and often funny, The Likeability Trap proposes surprising, practical solutions for confronting the cultural patterns holding us back, encourages us to value unique talents and styles instead of muting them, and to remember that while likeability is part of the game, it will not break you.

Book Likeonomics

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rohit Bhargava
  • Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
  • Release : 2012-04-25
  • ISBN : 1118238826
  • Pages : 224 pages

Download or read book Likeonomics written by Rohit Bhargava and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-04-25 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to become a trusted resource for consumers in a society of constant manipulation People decide who to trust, what advice to heed, and which individuals to forge personal or transactional relationships with based on a simple metric of believability. Success, in turn, comes from understanding one basic principle: how to be more trusted. Likeonomics offers a new vision of a world beyond Facebook where personal relationships, likeability, brutal honesty, extreme simplicity, and basic humanity are behind everything from multi-million dollar mergers to record-breaking product sales. There is a real ROI to likeability, and exactly how big it is will amaze you. Likeonomics provides real-world case studies of brands and individuals that have used these principles to become wildly successful, including: An iconic technology brand that awakened a revolution among their employees by standing for something bigger than their products A Portuguese singer who used YouTube to rack up more than 30 million views and launch her professional career. A regional team of financial advisors that went from being last in the nation among 176 branches to first, and stayed there for 13 of the next 15 years A tiny professional sports talent agent who achieved the impossible by landing the #1 drafted player in the NFL draft as a client through the power of relationships Author Rohit Bhargava is a founding member of the world's largest group of social media strategists at Ogilvy, where he has led marketing strategy for clients including Intel, Pepsi, Lenovo, Seiko, Unilever, and dozens of other large companies With Likeonomics as a guide, readers will get unconventional advice on how to stand out in a good way, avoid the hype and strategic traps of social media, and appeal to customers in a way that secures your company as a trusted and believable resource.

Book The Science of Likability

Download or read book The Science of Likability written by Patrick King and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-07-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you interested in 100% scientific and proven ways to make friends quickly, negotiate anything you want, turn enemies into friends, gain trust, and just be flat-out likable?How about step by step, methodical, literally foolproof approaches to just make people want you around more?In The Science of Likability, that's exactly what you'll get. I've taken 16 of the most influential, famous, and effective psychological studies and broken them down to see exactly how you can use their findings to your advantage. Every piece of advice in this book to increase your social standing and likability factor is 100% backed by in-depth, peer-reviewed research.It turns out that the majority of what we do and feel is determined subconsciously - even how much people like you. Ever get that feeling that you just don't like someone's vibe, but can't explain why? It's the little things that influence our psychology, and you'll learn how subconsciously make yourself seem likable, trustworthy, and intelligent.From Freud, to Cialdini, to Pavlov, to Schachter, to Goleman, these 16 studies are insightful, analytical, sometimes surprising, but most importantly effective and actionable. They're easy to concretely implement in your daily life to level up your charm, wit, and humor.Likability is the key to business, love, and relationships - make sure you are living your potential!What will you learn? Well here's a preview...- Chapter 2: How to read people like a book.- Chapter 3: How to make friends out of enemies.- Chapter 5: How to instantly become a close friend.- Chapter 6: How to negotiate anything and be persuasive.Intrigued? How about the following?- Chapter 8: How to make people trust you.- Chapter 11: How to make people do what you want.- Chapter 12: How to be a leader that anyone will follow.- Chapter 15: How to be credible and trustworthy.Being likable unlocks the doors to everything you want in life. A better career? You better believe that the people with the most promotions and highest salaries aren't just the most qualified. Better love life? Being likable keeps you a potential date to anyone you want. Better relationships and friendships? Not only that, but you open the door to people wanting to be friends with you.16 tested and proven ways to be the person you've always imagined yourself as.Don't hesitate to pick up your copy today by clicking the BUY NOW button at the top of this page!P.S. Make it so people can't help but simply like you.

Book Likeable Business  Why Today s Consumers Demand More and How Leaders Can Deliver

Download or read book Likeable Business Why Today s Consumers Demand More and How Leaders Can Deliver written by Dave Kerpen and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2012-11-02 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dave Kerpen’s follow-up to his bestselling Likeable Social Media gives business owners and marketers time-tested strategies for growing revenue Likeable Business lays out the eleven strategies companies can use to leverage likeability to increase profits and spur growth. Kerpen explains how to ensure that every aspect of a business communicates transparency, accountability, responsiveness, and authenticity—which customers find more likeable than traditional marketing campaigns. Dave Kerpen is cofounder and CEO of the marketing firm Likeable Media, included in the INC 500 fastest-growing private companies in the United States for both 2011 and 2012. He is the author of the New York Times bestselling book Likeable Social Media and is a frequent keynote speaker.

Book How to Listen with Intention  The Foundation of True Connection  Communication  and Relationships

Download or read book How to Listen with Intention The Foundation of True Connection Communication and Relationships written by Patrick King and published by PKCS Media. This book was released on 2020-06-17 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn to connect, create rapport, develop trust, and build deep relationships. In this day and age, the art of deep listening is a superpower. If you can make someone feel heard and important, you are on the highway to their heart. And it’s not as difficult or complex as you think. How to go from stranger to cherished friend in record time. How to Listen with Intention is ultimately a book about relationships. A relationship must be give-and-take - are you taking more than you are giving? Are you making people feel comfortable opening up to you? Are you listening well, or unwittingly being a conversational/relationship narcissist? It’s time to ask these difficult questions and learn the skills to not only help people in times of need, but create new friendships with just about anyone -- after all, who doesn’t like to be heard? Increase your emotional intelligence and people analyzing skills. Patrick King is an internationally bestselling author and social skills coach. His writing draws a variety of sources, from scientific research, academic experience, coaching, and real-life experience. Understand people two levels beneath their actual words. --The most damaging mindsets for listening. --How we are all biologically programmed to be terrible listeners, and we have no idea about it. --The one person you should emulate for better listening. --How listening styles, frames, and levels can help you - and how you are not even close to what you think you are. --The concept of active, reflective listening, and why it’s so tough. --Reading people, emotional intelligence, and empathy. Become the most trusted ally and source of comfort and understanding.

Book The Science of Likability

Download or read book The Science of Likability written by Patrick King and published by PublishDrive. This book was released on 2019-07-24 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 100% scientifically-proven ways to make friends quickly, turn enemies into friends, gain trust, and be flat-out likable. Utilize the most interesting, shocking, and counterintuitive findings in psychological science to simply make people want to be around you. The Science of Likability takes over 60 seminal scientific and psychological studies and breaks them down into real, usable guidelines and tips to create the presence you have always wanted. Every piece of advice in this book to increase your social standing and likability factor is 100% backed by in-depth, peer-reviewed research, and it goes far beyond simple common sense and intuition. Learn how to subconsciously make yourself likable, trustworthy, and intelligent. You can get a new haircut and wardrobe, and you even learn knock-knock jokes. But likability is something more. It's subconscious, and it's about the small signs that signal our brains to let their guards down, seek others out, and embrace them. We know what to do if we want to make someone hate us - we now also know what to do to become someone's favorite person. Understand what makes people tick, and strategically give it to them. - How to take advantage of people's memories for your sense of charm. - The power of equity in relationships and friendships. - A literal formula for "friendship chemistry." - The real way to use eye contact to build trust. - Why tripping and being vulnerable in front of people is positive. - Universal definitions of charisma, wit, and humor - seriously. Universal.

Book Better Small Talk

    Book Details:
  • Author : Patrick King
  • Publisher : PKCS Media
  • Release : 2020-04-14
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 142 pages

Download or read book Better Small Talk written by Patrick King and published by PKCS Media. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Networking events suck, but they can suck less. What to say and when to say to be likable, connect, and make a memorable impression. Actionable and applicable verbal maneuvers for just about every phase of conversation. From hello to goodbye, with strangers or old friends, you'll learn how to simply go deeper. NO MORE: interview mode, awkward silence, or struggling to hold people’s attention. Better Small Talk is a unique read. Imagine the following situation: you've just put on your name tag, and you're approached by a stranger. What do you say? Nice weather today.No, we can do better than this. Learn better small talk to avoid awkwardness, put people at ease, and build real rapport. Learn to open people up without them even realizing it. Patrick King is an internationally bestselling author and social skills coach. His writing draws of a variety of sources, from scientific research, academic experience, coaching, and real life experience. He suffered for years as a shy introvert and managed to boil human interaction down to a science - first for himself, and now for you. You'll learn exact dialogues, responses, phrases, and questions to use. •How to tell captivating stories and what to actually focus on. •Four ways to warm yourself up and prepare for even the most unpredictable conversations. •Instantly setting a tone of friendship and openness with strangers. •Common and subtle conversational habits you need to stop right now Become someone who is magnetic and who can make new friends in any situation. Simple conversation is the gatekeeper to friendships, your dream career, romance, and overall happiness. The ability to connect with anyone is an underrated superpower. People will be more drawn to you without even knowing why, and never again people will people be bored talking to you. You’ll never run out of things to say when you master these conversation tactics. Make each conversation count by clicking the BUY NOW button at the top of the page.

Book Likability  How to Be Likeable and Have Charisma

Download or read book Likability How to Be Likeable and Have Charisma written by Terry Scott and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-21 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2 in 1 deal! Purchase paperback version and get the Kindle version absolutely free! Receive value for yourself and show generosity by gifting a book to someone else!Have you ever asked yourself:How to make people like you?How to be likeable?Do you wish you had more charisma?Have you wished to improve your social skills? This book discusses buoyantly what likeability really means, its traits, general principles surrounding it, how it can be attained. It also borders on human relationships and the need to be assertive in some occasions. The book asserts the efficacy of being liked by many and hated by few. It also highlights the fact that the journey to being likeable isn't one whose path is rippleless all-round. Furthermore, it highlights dominance and recessiveness as the bane of some individuals and how it affects the relationship of people through being domineering or withdrawn. It recommends a lasting solution to connecting with people to thereby providing an ease of communication. That's not all; it highlights reasons why conflicts are rampant in relationships, the causative agents and how to effectively get rid of them. Likewise, it elucidates on the fundamental patterns that govern likehow to be interesting and how to improve your communication skills, and its rules of thumb which are highly recommended to be interesting. This book is highly recommended for every age grade, social status, sex, race or colour, religion, nationality and other determinants of the human race. Its importance cannot be overemphasized. Grab your copy-as fast as you can. You won't regret you did. TagsImprove relationshipsHow to be charismaticHow to be likeableImprove communication skillsHow to be interestingImprove your social skillsConnect with other people

Book Aaker on Branding

Download or read book Aaker on Branding written by David Aaker and published by Morgan James Publishing. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Aaker on Branding" presents in a compact form the twenty essential principles of branding that will lead to the creation of strong brands. Culled from the six David Aaker brand books and related publications, these principles provide the broad understanding of brands, brand strategy, brand portfolios, and brand building that all business, marketing, and brand strategists should know. "Aaker on Branding" is a source for how you create and maintain strong brands and synergetic brand portfolios. It provides a checklist of strategies, perspectives, tools, and concepts that represents not only what you should know but also what action options should be on the table. When followed, these principles will lead to strong, enduring brands that both support business strategies going forward and create coherent and effective brand families. Those now interested in and involved with branding are faced with information overload, not only from the Aaker books but from others as well. It is hard to know what to read and which elements to adapt. There are a lot of good ideas out there but also some that are inferior, need updating, or are subject to being misinterpreted and misapplied. And there are some ideas that, while plausible, are simply wrong if not dangerous especially if taken literally. "Aaker on Branding"offers a sense of topic priorities and a roadmap to David Aaker's books, thinking, and contributions. As it structures the larger literature of the brand field, it also advances the theory of branding and the practice of brand management and, by extension, the practice of business management.

Book The Art of Witty Banter

Download or read book The Art of Witty Banter written by Patrick King and published by PKCS Media. This book was released on 2019-09-29 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Think quickly on your feet: be smooth, funny, and clever – all at once. Goodbye awkward silences, hello conversational agility! No matter where you lie on the spectrum of awkward to engaging, witty banter is always the end goal – and it should be. Witty banter, and all the steps that lead to it, allows you to (1) disarm and connect with anyone, (2) immediately exit boring small talk mode, and (3) instantly build rapport like you’re old friends. Flow with the conversational twists and turns like water. The Art of Witty Banter carefully examines the art, nuance, and mechanics of banter and charm to make you witty comeback machine, the likes of which your friends have never seen. You’ll be able to handle, defend, disarm, and engage others in a way that makes you comfortable and confident with each growing day. Transform "interview" conversations into comfortable rapport. Patrick King is an internationally bestselling author and Social Skills and Conversation Coach. As someone who teaches people to speak for a living, he’s broken wit and banter down to a science and given you real guidelines on what to say and when. Make a sharp, smart, and savvy impression – every time. There’s no guesswork here – you’ll get exact examples and phrases to plug into your daily conversations. 18 specific points to up your charisma quotient. How will you be clever, be quick, and be interesting? •Why the questions you use make people freeze. •How to master teasing, witty comebacks, and initiating jokes and humor. •What free association is and how it makes you quick-witted. •How to create an instant “in-group” and inside joke with someone.