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

  • By: Patrick King
  • Narrated by: Joe Hempel
  • Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
  • 4.2 out of 5 stars (70 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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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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Decent information, not the best narration.

This book is just okay. There is some useful and good information but also some quirky advice and silliness, not funny silliness more like nonsense.

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great practical skills you can use every day

this book definitely had some gold nuggets that will be with me forever. if you aren't sure about certain social situations this book walks you through different situation and how to handle it

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one of the best-liked books

loved it,it really gave me some room to talk more confidence and inspiration thank you

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Great for introverts!

If you are an introvert, this is a book for you, but as an extroverted introvert person who has gone through a long journey to lean more toward extrovertnesness, 70% of these strategies were redundant for me. The first few chapters of the book offers nothing I personally haven’t learned from Dale Carnegie books. However, the last phase of the book about defensive and offensive strategies were eye opening concepts and I really enjoy listening to them over and over fine tuning my approach dealing with certain situations. Overall a great beginners book, I would’ve given 5 stars if the book was less generalized and more focused with more real life examples.

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wish my parents taught me this

King has some big daddy energy when it comes to teaching you life changing advices. All his books are amazing and applicable to one's life. You might even call him King daddy by the end of the book

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Would not recommend for any normal people

Not for anyone who can conduct themselves in any normal social environment - very American centric.

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