How to Start a Conversation and Make Friends

Revised and Updated

De: Don Gabor

Narrado por: Don Gabor

For more than 25 years, small-talk expert Don Gabor has helped thousands of people communicate with wit, confidence, and enthusiasm with his best seller How to Start a Conversation and Make Friends. This newly revised and updated edition combines classic techniques in the art of conversation with necessary skills for communicating in the 21st century.

By following the simple and dynamic guidelines you’ll be ready to strike up a great conversation anytime, anywhere. Learn how to keep the conversation going by asking the right questions, using body language effectively, and avoiding conversation pitfalls. Combining his tried-and-true methods with a whole new section on communicating online and through social networking, Don Gabor shows you how to:

• Identify your personal conversation style
• Engage in online conversations using proper etiquette and security
• Turn online conversations into face-to-face relationships
• Boost your personal and professional speaking skills to the next level

How to Start a Conversation and Make Friends is sure to help you connect with others at home, work, and everywhere in between for years to come.

©2011 Don Gabor (P)2011 Random House

nice narrative, but lack of examples

mostly built on general and common sense suggestions that without concrete examples remain quite vague. A little bit desapointed, specially after reading the genius book "How to make friends and influence people"

Relevant but skims surface

I’d like more examples of situations and options on how to handle. But still a good start.

ok book

ok book A little outdated. i had hoped for something more in line with internet use.

Interesting

I like the simplicity of the topic. Sometimes, we think a situation is so much bigger then it actually is. This book made it easy in bite size pieces.

Excelent book!

It goes direct to the main point. Gives you an easy to follow program that you can understand and put in practice right away.. while I listened to it I had the chance to interact with new people and this book helped me to get me introduced better and have the absolute confidence to start a conversation about different subjects!

its ok

Not 100% helpfull most of the way how to start conversation in this audio we already doing it nothing special

Short and sweet!

Very good tips on convo and small talk! This is a great read from start to finish.

The part about how...

The part about how to remember names of people is priceless! I'm still using these tips today!!

Good info, useless chapters on online conversation

It's a nice little book with good info about how to construct conversations. I wouldn't say it gives you a full framework, but maybe a bit of a framework that is useful enough to boost your conversational skills, as well as some specific techniques to do so.

One thing that I found useless is the part on online conversations/etiquette, those things are obvious. Maybe it's just me though, because it may have been targeted at the older generation who are not familiar with online communication very good.

If you don't have anything better to listen...

Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?

It is very short. There is not much information. Very general, but, if you don't have anything better you can give it a shot.

Would you recommend How to Start a Conversation and Make Friends to your friends? Why or why not?

I won't recommend it to my friends.

Any additional comments?

The Dale Carnagie's book called "How to make friends and influence people" is muuuuuch more informative.
"How to Start a Conversation and Make Friends" is more like, "when you at the party, SMILE!" - really?
Dale Carnegie is going deeper, into psychology, the way of thinking, arguments, etc. Way better book.

I do not recommend "How to Start a Conversation and Make Friends."