The Mindset of Small Talk

How Mastering Small Talk Has Nothing to Do with Coming Up with Things to Say

De: Lana Otoya

Narrado por: Michelle Murillo

Wouldn't it be nice to chat with anybody without having to come up with things to say?

One of the nicest ladies I ever met was a school teacher.

I was chatting with her on a film set once because we were using her daughter in a commercial. This lady was (and I repeat) one of the nicest people I have ever met. I think we chatted for about 30 minutes and then I never saw her again.

Thirty minutes.

I seriously thought that I could trust this lady with all my deepest darkest secrets. That I could call her up one day and ask her to go for coffee and she’d say yes.

How could this lady make such an impression on me in such a short amount of time?

Well, she had mastered the two keys you need to be a perfect small talker. These two things are revealed in my book and once you know them, everything gets so much easier.

My name is Lana and I am a relationship and self-care blogger. Before I started a blog, I was a seriously introverted university student trying to get through film school without having to small-talk with my classmates at lunch.

Little did I know back then, the film industry is all about networking and creating relationships with people you barely know. Once I started actually working in film, I was forced into learning how to small talk and how to get along with people. I was able to do this by observing others and stealing their techniques. People like that lovely high school teacher became my role models, I needed to do what they were doing.

After years of observation, I realized that all master small-talkers have a few things in common but the biggest things are the two keys that were shown to me so elegantly by that school teacher. Once I had mastered those, no small talk conversation was a nightmare anymore. In fact, I started to enjoy them.

My book will show you:

• The two keys you need to master small talk, and neither of them involve conversation starters
• How to shift your perspective on small talk so that it takes the pressure off
• The reason why small talk is not about entertaining others but is actually for you
• The difference between a good conversation starter and a bad one
• Small talk for people with social anxiety
• Small talk for introverts
• Small talk for dating, making friends, and networking
• How to improve your self esteem
• How to help in building confidence
• How to never fear the dreaded small talk conversation ever again!

If you've read this far, you're already 500 words into transforming yourself into a real people person. Don't hesitate to make this simple yet super-effective change in your life.

Download my book and instantly start improving your conversation skills today.

©2018 Lana Otoya (P)2018 Lana Otoya

Great book!

I really connected with the focus on changing my mindset and attitudes towards small talk!

Not very useful

Hated how the narrator uses the same pitch, tone and inflection over and over throughout the entire book. That made it super annoying to listen to. Tara-ra, tara-ra, tara-ra, tara-ra ....

The writer never gets to the point of what actually is the MINDset of small talk. Most of it is specific examples on what to say in different scenarios which doesn't serve anyone's real life situations.

basic

this is a good book if you are JUST beginning to communicate with people. but it's also nothing you cant find free anywhere on the internet.