Better Small Talk

Talk to Anyone, Avoid Awkwardness, Generate Deep Conversations, and Make Real Friends

By: Patrick King

Narrated by: Russell Newton

Length: 3 hrs and 37 mins

Publisher's summary

Networking events suck, but they can suck less. What to say and when to say to be likable, connect, and make a memorable impression.

Actionable and applicable verbal maneuvers for just about every phase of conversation. From hello to goodbye, with strangers or old friends, you'll learn how to simply go deeper.

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

Better Small Talk is a unique listen. Imagine the following situation: You've just put on your name tag, and you're approached by a stranger. What do you say? Nice weather today.

No, we can do better than this. Learn better small talk to avoid awkwardness, put people at ease, and build real rapport.

Learn to open people up without them even realizing it.

Patrick King is an internationally best-selling author and social skills coach. His writing draws of a variety of sources, from 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.

You'll learn exact dialogues, responses, phrases, and questions to use.

• How to tell captivating stories and what to actually focus on
• Four ways to warm yourself up and prepare for even the most unpredictable conversations
• Instantly setting a tone of friendship and openness with strangers
• Common and subtle conversational habits you need to stop right now

Become someone who is magnetic and who can make new friends in any situation.

Simple conversation is the gatekeeper to friendships, your dream career, romance, and overall happiness. The ability to connect with anyone is an underrated superpower. People will be more drawn to you without even knowing why, and never again people will people be bored talking to you. You’ll never run out of things to say when you master these conversation tactic

©2020 Patrick King (P)2020 Patrick King

Skipped Paragraphs

I like the book and have been listening when I m driving. I do have the hard copy and tonight I read while playing the audiobook, the narration skipped so many paragraphs just on chapter 4. Didn’t know about the previous chapters but I think I m going to read again, feel like I missed lots of information in the book. And honestly makes me wonder if all the audibles are like this?

good advice

The only real negative is that the narration is hard to listen to. he gives several tips and tools to use to improve engaging with other people. most of these require some work and practice, so if you're not really willing to put the work in, you won't get a whole lot out of this book. overall I found this book to be useful and helpful

A little bit forgettable

There are a lot of good tips and tricks that I remember in my day to day, but the narrator made it a hassle to finish it.

Great

This was an enjoyable book with great insights on how to develop your social skills

A few good tips, reminders and messages

Although a bit disappointing as most of the content is intuitive, not as useful as the high reviews would suggest.

Eh, not much new to learn here.

A lot of basic concepts that could be summed up in a blog post instead of a book. Elaborating on these concepts were not necessarily helpful, and felt drawn out if anything.

It would be better off reading how to win friends and influence people, which will affect your conversations entirely if adopted.

Highly recommend

I like how this book was conveyed. Also very informative. Recommend to people who want enhance social interactions.

Some Good Insights

There were some good, specific insights here. But it could have benefited from better editing and precision of concepts and language and examples.

nothing groundbreaking

The content wasn’t groundbreaking but had some useful pointers. Most of the concepts I was already aware of. The audiobook narration was dull, monotone, and sounded robotic.

Robotic narrator

Mediocre content but what kills the experience is a narrator who speaks in a monotone. Initially I truly that it was a computer generated voice. Worse still, the narrator then instructs us to expand our vocal range!