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How to Talk to Anyone
- 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships
- Narrated by: Joyce Bean, Leil Lowndes
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Business & Careers, Career Success
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Publisher's Summary
"You'll not only break the ice, you'll melt it away with your new skills." -Larry King
"The lost art of verbal communication may be revitalized by Leil Lowndes." -Harvey McKay, author of How to Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive
What is that magic quality that makes some people instantly loved and respected? Everyone wants to be their friend (or, if single, their lover). In business, they rise swiftly to the top of the corporate ladder. What is their “Midas touch?”
What it boils down to is a more skillful way of dealing with people.
The author has spent her career teaching people how to communicate for success. In her book How to Talk to Anyone, Lowndes offers 92 easy and effective sure-fire success techniques - she takes the listener from first meeting all the way up to sophisticated techniques used by the big winners in life. In this information-packed audiobook you’ll find:
- 9 ways to make a dynamite first impression
- 14 ways to master small talk, “big talk,” and body language
- 14 ways to walk and talk like a VIP or celebrity
- 6 ways to sound like an insider in any crowd
- 7 ways to establish deep subliminal rapport with anyone
- 9 ways to feed someone’s ego (and know when NOT to!)
- 11 ways to make your phone a powerful communications tool
- 15 ways to work a party like a politician works a room
- 7 ways to talk with tigers and not get eaten alive
In her trademark entertaining and straight-shooting style, Leil gives the techniques catchy names so you’ll remember them when you really need them, including: “Rubberneck the Room,” “Be a Copyclass,” “Come Hither Hands,” “Bare Their Hot Button,” “The Great Scorecard in the Sky,” and “Play the Tombstone Game,” for big success in your social life, romance, and business.
How to Talk to Anyone, which is an update of her popular book, Talking the Winner's Way (see the 5-star reviews of the latter) is based on solid research about techniques that work!
By the way, don't confuse How to Talk to Anyone with one of Leil's previous books, How to Talk to Anybody About Anything. This one is completely different!
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- TheTechDoc
- 03-04-16
Too self important
This book has a few good tips, but the author is far too pretentious for me. I expected a book with communication tips (of which there are some), but the book is much more about manipulating people to benefit oneself.
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- Patrick Detmer
- 11-14-16
superficial
92 tricks? Is that really practical to remember? A lot of information in this story was repeated or focused on superficial manipulation of others. I love books on audible but this was a real struggle to finish.
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- Mr. Barker
- 10-05-16
Less about how to talk to anyone and more about playing the game
The book makes some good points, however, it also comes across as very manipulative and insincere. Many of the tactics that are portrayed as bulletproof can easily be seen through. It's more about how to play the "game."
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- Gudrun
- 04-29-16
It could do with some editing
Some of this is very helpful and might change the way you interact with people. But it needs cutting down it seems very longwinded and repetitive in parts. It is also a little dated.
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- Scott
- 09-19-16
Good info, but painful to listen to
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I found some good information in this book, but I would have found it SO MUCH BETTER if the 92 tricks were listed instead of having to listen to this entire book. Part of the problem is that 92 tips and tricks are far too many to remember. There are a lot of good pointers, but there are way too many ideas expressed here. More detailed examples and explanations of fewer tips and tricks would probably be more effective... would make them easier to incorporate into actual interpersonal communications.
But far worse is her old-timey way of writing (and presumably speaking). Most of the reviews are correct... the language she uses is so outdated (I've never heard the word 'golly' so many times in my life), the generalizations are pain (and I am anything but PC), and her constant use of alliteration is cringe-worthy (and I almost always appreciate alliteration). I don't believe 90% of her stories about this friend or that acquaintance. They just sound so stilted. And if it wasn't for a few awkward uses of modern-day terms, I'd think this book was written in Dale Carnegie's day (Amazon says the book was released in 2003). She may be an expert in modern-day communication, but she sounds like she belongs in a 1940s newsreel.
I'm only through #57, and I may try to find the list online to get the rest of them without subjecting myself to more uses of terms like 'big winners' and 'fat cats.' Glad I got it on-sale.
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- rider
- 01-02-17
so outdated
Has How to Talk to Anyone turned you off from other books in this genre?
I had to look at the date it was written and couldn't believe it was 2015. I thought it was something from the 30's or 40's. Sorry, but a good one to go to sleep with.
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- BN
- 10-30-16
Can I get my credit back?
This book is corny and after listening to it for 30 mins I was ready to stop but continued on for another 30 mins. Overall get a book from grant cardone. Any book and you'll pick up similar tips but with great presentation
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- Christina Gould
- 01-04-17
Some good advise, but...
There was some good advise in this book, but it was seemed mostly tailored to politicians and salesmen. Too manipulative to put to use in sincere relationships. Probably my mistake, the subtitle might have tipped me off!
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- Kenneth A. MacClune
- 05-30-16
Trite, base advice
Perhaps one or two items worth considering. We get a collection of "just so" stories or good and bad behaviors and personal dictums on appropriate actions and behaviors that perhaps are actually a little more flexible than the author implies. Lastly - the author offers advice on complimenting people that would be very inappropriate in the modern workplace. Namely, complimenting some physical trait of a person. Though it may be appropriate at a party or bar, this is a modern workplace "never ever go".
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- Natalie Fayman
- 04-03-16
Hard to take seriously
Sorry, but I have a hard time taking the author seriously when she refers to martial artists having to register their hands as lethal weapons (urban legend), bats having superior eyes that can see in the dark better than we can (they don't, they are just using their ears to navigate with sonar), lovers referring to each other as "my turtledove" (what is this... the 40's???), advising her listeners to answer the phone with a polite but flat voice then wait until they hear who it is on the line before gushing with pretend happiness (who doesn't have Call ID these days?), or making sexist comments about how women don't understand football analogies but can talk about childbirth all day. When she talked about a customer calling her to complain that "one of her tapes had broken", I checked the publication date of the book thinking it would be from the 80's but to my surprise the publication date is actually 2015 with a copyright date of 2003. If that's true and she's still referring to things that have been outdated for decades, I don't know how much of her advice I really want to trust.
The author may be a legit communications expert, but she lost a lot of credibility with me due to her narrow-mindedness, overgeneralization, and outdated references. The two nicest things I can say about this book is that it's short enough to be tolerable... and I got it on sale. Don't spend your credit on this one.
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- Paul White
- 08-29-18
American people and how to deal with them
Most of the scenarios in this are based around being American and how an American would respond.
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- Nice Biscuit
- 09-20-16
Good book but annoying narration
I liked the book and the content is informative and interesting but the narration after a while began to irritate me.
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- Jensen de Groene
- 08-21-18
Started off on the right track but quickly became
I didn't find this book very useful at all. The advice in it seems to be aimed at dinner parties, and is heavily focused on a commercialised end-goal.
The author has littered the book full of contrived anecdotes that I struggle to believe happened anywhere near to how she described them.
It's a shame, because the first few chapters were really interesting, but then it became 6 hours of padding and common sense discussion points.
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- Open Ears
- 10-10-16
So dull and so unoriginal!
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Ugh! This was awful, now i can understand why it has so many bad reviews! Thought i would take a chance but i really regret it. Such old fashioned and unrealistic nonsense, told in a patronising and annoying way. Very unimpressed with this one!
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- 07-17-17
One of the best books on communication
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
One of the best books on communication I've ever come across. I read it multiple times because the messages in it are valuable and have helped me come a long way in securing a career at Shell. I'm happy to have found this book at the time I did. Thank you to the author of this masterpeice!
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- T S Hodgson
- 03-21-18
Nothing new
I persisted until the end of this book but it was quite a slog. None of the ideas presented were new to me and I found the author's name dropping followed by dreary lists of what that person has accomplished incredibly tedious.
I will be returning this book.
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- Juls
- 03-14-18
Awful, Dull, Boring.
I Couldn't even get past first chapter. Really really annoying voice!! Deadly dull content too.
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- Leanne B.
- 06-12-21
Boring
Boring narrator found it very hard to listen to has to keep going and going back to jt
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- Miguel
- 12-26-17
Inspiring, enjoyable and easy to follow
Inspiring, enjoyable and easy to follow. A nice addition to anyone's collection of "how to behave"-books
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- Anonymous User
- 09-03-21
Stuff you know but never bloody remember!
I knew this was going to be a good listen. Leil has created something of a communications bible here. Joyce's voice delivers it perfectly. I'm glad I downloaded it. Will return to it again and again!
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- Stuart
- 02-01-17
Wow Wow Wow!!!
As someone who has always struggled with insecurities when talking to people this book has been an absolute life changer.
My issues came to a head one night at my friend's 45th birthday where I struggled to talk to people and in the end went home upset and at my wits end as to the reasons why conversations developed either side of me and I was always left facing to backs at the table.
I might add that I am the owner/director of a successful software business and consider I am well above average intelligence. I just didn't know how to communicate and make people feel comfortable talking to me.
I searched around and after listening to various snippets of a few communications book I chose this one....
This is where I have to add a warning, "if you relate to my story above, this book will literally change your life". It had an IMMEDIATE impact with me, in less than hour I'd learnt skills of first approach, something that used to make me tremor. I now chat to many many people at the gym and in shops, at street crossings etc etc AND I look forward to those chats now.
If I could give this book 100 stars I definitely would.
Thank you Leil Lowndes for changing my life
Stuart Otto from DownUnder
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- Richard King
- 03-30-19
Why I did not finish this book
I am unable to finish this book as the author's voice is excruciatingly painful to listen to. There are only certain American voices you can listen to for hours on end.
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- DDD
- 08-02-17
Wordy and trite
This is a book that would have been improved greatly from cutting down on wordy explanations fraught with alliteration, slang, gendered case and unnecessary synonyms. These made the audio-book dull and feel trite. For the majority of the book I felt that 92 was too high a goal for the author and that the number of techniques should have been compressed into 40 "worth while reading" techniques rather than watering down the quality with quantity.
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- Jed Atkinson
- 04-16-17
mostly useless
It starts off great, but 92 is just way too much. All of the good content is at the start of the book.
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- melody
- 05-31-17
disappointing
If this book wasn’t for you, who do you think might enjoy it more?
I only managed to listen for an hour...I think if you are clueless about human interaction eg. how to smile etc this book could be worthwhile. I wasn't looking for advice on how to fake conversations by smiling in a certain way etc. I'll be returning this book
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- Matt Corey
- 02-07-17
Irony
While the books creates and makes many interesting and useful points, unfortunately the good points are overshadowed by many bad points and ironies throught out.
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- Jordan
- 02-02-17
American flavour, but excellent presentation
I enjoyed the stories and the way the tips were presented and revister through the reading. Many of the stories fit an American context, however I found I could 'translate' many of them to an Australian context. I very much recommend this book to anyone interested in learning about communication
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- Anonymous User
- 10-13-18
Great concepts, rubbish writing
I could not finish this book, it was too irritating.
Whilst the concepts are great, it is filled with absolute rubbish stories to justify the concepts.
Too much bovine excrement in it for this listener.
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- Vincent
- 04-18-19
very naive
this book is not a revolution. tips are quite basic I felt like the whole book could have last just an hour that would have been enough
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- Anonymous User
- 05-22-17
Solid tips and tricks
Whilst it was not ground breaking in any sense it did highlight many behavioral patterns for success accompanied by examples to enhance each. More useful for those in a business routine, though I'd recommend to anyone wishing to find ideas to improve themselves in a social or work context.
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