How to Talk to Anyone About Anything: Improve Your Social Skills, Master Small Talk, Connect Effortlessly, and Make Real Friends (Communication Skills Training)

James makes this broad topic incredibly relatable and fun! He includes tips for doing all of it...I'm hooked on his books...They're short, easy, and fun!

The author had some good tips for battling shyness and being self conscious when talking to others. He shares his own experiences, and has some good ideas for keeping conversations going.

I purchased this book for a Christmas gift because it was on their list. Good ideas in the book!

I have picked up this book several times to refer to. I am studying abroad in Austria and was having a hard time connecting with new people in a new city. This book is very helpful and is to me, very straight forward facts. But I find that being reminded of them and actively trying to use them helped me so much!

This book seems to be geared toward people whose issues with small talk and communication stem largely from a lack of self confidence and social anxiety. The preponderance of positive review indicates it's great for that. If your issues with communication stem from more of a lack of interest in what others have to say, and you don't view yourself as lacking confidence, you might struggle to make it through the intro. There might be relevant info in there for you, but you'll need to sift through all the information tailored to someone else to find it. For me, that's the issue to begin with.

I really liked this book. It provided some excellent tips for conversations. I hope to use some of these tips in the future.

This is a pretty good, short and sweet style book dealing with the subject of communication. It’s a subject that I’ve personally been interested in for a while and this book did not disappoint. If I had one nitpick, it would be that most of the points are very general in scope, which isn’t a bad thing at all. This book to me seems to be for an audience that is very new to concepts in communication. If you want to go deeper however, I’d probably look elsewhere. But if you’re not even aware of the general concepts of starting a conversation, then by all means pick up this book. You have to start somewhere, and it’s a pretty pleasant and fast read.

Great book for my autistic teen that struggles with conversation with people outside her circle.

Reading books about communication is, for me, the most essential part of my job, which, is… communication. I firmly believe that reading and staying open-minded are key to lifelong learning. Even if a book only gives me one single idea worth jotting down, that alone makes me better at what I do. This book is a very nice, succinct résumé of what I teach in my classes on public speaking, charisma, and even creativity. I particularly enjoyed the bonus material in the form of checklists; the structure is logical, and the tone throughout is warm, personal, and clear. I’m pretty sure I’ll end up recommending this one to my clients. And honestly, I’m convinced that books like this are becoming more important every day. With people spending so much time behind their screens - messaging when they could talk, emailing when they could meet - connecting with new people is getting harder and harder. Books like this help bring us back to the basics.

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Me gustó y me ayudó mucho

I love this book grabs you and keeps you interested

I already started reading this book, it's worth it, I'm totally satisfied. There is enough to have a positive change in your life and build self-confidence and discipline to be successful in a wink of an eye.