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  • Conversation Tactics: 43 Verbal Strategies to Charm, Captivate, Banter, and Defend

  • By: Patrick King
  • Narrated by: Joe Hempel
  • Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (109 ratings)

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Conversation Tactics: 43 Verbal Strategies to Charm, Captivate, Banter, and Defend

By: Patrick King
Narrated by: Joe Hempel
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Summary

Beyond simple small talk: what to say and when to say it to be likable, connect, and make a memorable impression.

Actionable and applicable verbal maneuvers for just about every phase of conversation - good and bad. Whatever your conversational goal, you’ll find tactics to put you in a winning position - in a literal sense with arguments, and in a figurative sense with making friends. You can never underestimate the power of a simple conversation.

No more interview mode, awkward silence, or struggling to hold people’s attention.

Conversation Tactics is unique. It provides guidance for every social situation you’ll come across, including what should I say, hello, how was your weekend, I disagree with you, stop doing that, here’s a story, and goodbye.

You’ll find 100% actionable, nuanced, and subtle tactics to salvage your worst situations and enhance your best - all field-tested and proven through thousands of conversations. In addition to shrewd insights to make conversation flow, you’ll learn to win arguments and diffuse dirty tricks.

Learn the art of verbal self-defense - and offense.

Patrick King is an internationally best-selling author and social skills coach. His writing draws of a variety of sources, including 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. He is without doubt a uniquely qualified individual to teach you these tactics.

©2018 Patrick King (P)2018 Patrick King
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okay.

only few good insights. otherwise too obvious. good insight about dealing with passive aggression.

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Nice to listen to and extremely helpful!l

I couldn't stop listening. the author provider clear ideas, supported by science and illustrated with many examples. the language is straightforward and the content is well presented. I highly recommend this audiobook!

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You may already be aware of most of the points

Great as reminder of strategies to use during difficult conversations. The narrators descriptions and explainations were great and helped me mentally place myself in the scenarios and remember those I've encountered. Will listen again. Would buy this on offer rather than full price, unless you have no prior knowledge. It does feel like a longer read than it is ina few places.

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Packed with fascinating info

This book is absolutely worth the read, and almost certainly warrants a 2nd or 3rd read as well, as concentration of useful information is so high, there’s no way you could catch it all in one go.

There’s no forced life success stories, subtle religious undertones, or pointless red herrings with way too much detail.

There was not a single moment in this book where I felt it was filler. I’ve seen reviews on similar books with reviews that claim they’re “straight to the point” and “waffle free”, but trust me.

It’s well structured, examples of use are given for nearly everything covered, and the humour is not forced. This of course is complimented by how well it’s read.

My most useful takeaway is the conversation resume, but I also have a whole notes file of quotes that I found motivating or just clicked with me as well.

If you have to pick a single book on this topic, for goodness sake choose this one.

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Pretty good considering the topic

Better than other books I heard so far. Probably a must for everyone who did not hear too many of these.

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Fantastic start

I feel that the first few chapters were extremely helpful but after the chapter explaining active listening and how to give proper compliments I think the direction of the book kind of lost its way, but there are a lot of helpful things in the beginning chapters I will take away from this so if you are having trouble leading or starting conversations I would recommend having a listen

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Excellent!

Everyone should listen to this. Great voice and content. Excellent sound quality. Fantastic strategies. Worth every penny

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excellent book

great if you'd like to learn conversation tactics.
well worth listening to glad I did

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amazing listen with great examples

i was looking for a guide that is based on examples and real, possible situations. i found this audiobook to be exactly that! very impressed with the content and the narration is soothing and memorable.
I'm recommending this to anyone else interested in some useful information on the topic of communication!

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human interaction explained gently to an alien

I will be looking up more work by the author, concise, non condescending, and simple methods.

I wish I could give this to a younger self.

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