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Improve Your Conversations: Think on Your Feet, Witty Banter, and Always Know What to Say with Improv Comedy Techniques
- Narrated by: Jeremy Reloj
- Length: 2 hrs and 5 mins
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Improve Your Conversations: Think on Your Feet, Witty Banter, and Always Know What to Say with Improv Comedy Techniques
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Summary
Does your mind blank at the worst times in a conversation and create awkward silences? Do you want to think faster on your feet? Do you run out of things to say and suck at keeping a conversation going? Or do you just wish you could be wittier and cleverer in every day conversation? Introverted? It's easier than you think.... All you need to do is just improv your conversations!
Improve Your Conversations teaches you how to use the ingenious framework from improv comedy and apply it directly to your everyday social interactions and conversations...and can't we learn something from the greatest improv comedians in the world, like Tina Fey and Will Ferrell? Improv comedy and memorable conversations have almost everything in common, from their premise to what makes them great to their end goals. In this book,I have pieced together the 14 best actionable and practical techniques from the improv comedy world designed to create conversational flow and connection...and simply have better interactions. You never know when a single connection can change your life, so make sure that each one is memorable. How will you learn to improv(e) your conversations?
- The number one cause of awkward silences and how to beat them.
- How to maintain an equal give and take for maximum conversational flow.
- The three topics you can always go to when your mind blanks.
- The mind-set to always know what to say and think quickly on your feet.
- How to direct the conversation to exactly where you want.
- What Sherlock Holmes has to do with great conversations.
Countless examples...and much more! Plus 14 insightful exercises to illustrate and practice each technique. This is not a book of generic, vague tips like "fake it 'til you make it" and "just make more eye contact and smile." No, this is a book of real tips that you can implement today to immediately increase your conversational fluency and flow.
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- Avilon
- 07-03-21
decent
not bad nor good. its decent and recommended for average people. I recommend to buy it
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- James
- 16-05-20
great
Easy to follow tips and something for everyone who wants to be able to keep a conversation going
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- gainsbar
- 20-08-19
Amazing
loved it. i will recommend this book
to my friends, colleagues and family. thank you
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- Amazon Customer
- 02-11-15
Excellent Book
Easy to listen to and had very helpful tips on improving my conversation skills. I normally don't a review but I felt this book was worth the time to let people know it was helpful to me.
13 people found this helpful
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- Niall
- 10-01-16
Just the basics repackaged
So the author starts by saying that he is a FAILED stand-up comic. So the rest of the book is about how social skills relate to IMPROV which is a totally different thing. Lessons include not changing the subject and then in the next chapter you learn that you can totally change the subject whenever you want. There really is nothing here that is not intuitive to even people who did not do improv. The largest portion of the book is the author sharing his personal story and talking about how much he loves Will Ferrell.
9 people found this helpful
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- LRung
- 08-10-15
Well worth the price
It was a lot of good tips that address my own problems in conversation. After listening to this book, I think the only conversational problem I don't have is interrupting people.
9 people found this helpful
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- Joseph
- 30-01-16
Utter Pabulum, a Superficial Waste of Time
This book wasn’t for you, but who do you think might enjoy it more?
Any person with more than a modicum of depth/intelligence is likely to be quickly offended by the utter lack of substance in this self help book. I cannot envision anyone - at least anyone without an interest in promoting this author and/or sales of this book - would genuinely point out to tangible ways this book offers anything of merit or value.
Has Improve Your Conversations: Think on Your Feet, Witty Banter, and Always Know What to Say with Improv Comedy Techniques turned you off from other books in this genre?
No, but it has certainly turned me off from any other books from this author.
Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Jeremy Reloj?
N/A
What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?
Anger at how lacking in substance this book was. It was the first book I declined to finish. It reads like an untalented 10th grader's term paper, repeating the same broad points over and over with no (meaningful, anyway) tangible examples of what supports the thesis.For example, the chapter (4) on "Use specific statements not open ended questions."Here's a sample: "We ask questions all the time because they come easily to us. We often navigate the world based on questions, and wondering about what we see, hear and know." Really. Thanks. What next?" BUT, if you're trying to get a great conversation going, questions can lead to minefields. Remember that great conversations involve a frictionless back and forth." Are. You. Kidding. Me?
Any additional comments?
An Audible member for about five years, I've got over 200 titles to my credit. Probably 30% in the "self improvement" milieu. While maybe 1 title in 20 is a disappointment, this is the WORST book I've ever downloaded, and will be only the second on which I request a return/refund.
8 people found this helpful
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- Leigh Espy
- 08-02-16
If you really need help with the basics
This book is very basic. I was looking for information on how to "level-up" significantly, since I consider myself to have good conversation skills already. If you are really bad at conversation and need clear guidance, this this book could help. If you are already a decent conversationalist, then this may be too basic for you.
7 people found this helpful
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- Jaron
- 04-11-15
It does what is says
This book delivers on the goods in a short sweet package. Its already improved my conversation game. Highly recomended
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- SC
- 16-04-16
disappointing
an hour of material stretched over many. in my opinion, "do you talk funny?" is a much better book, with better narration.
6 people found this helpful
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- Miz Shay
- 17-04-16
Not really sure that this book was for me
I really don't know what the narrator was talking about I sort of found him uninteresting. After two hours of this book I had to put it down because I truly couldn't connect with this author. Sorry.
3 people found this helpful
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- N. Zahner
- 11-04-16
Awful narrator.
What disappointed you about Improve Your Conversations: Think on Your Feet, Witty Banter, and Always Know What to Say with Improv Comedy Techniques?
The narrator is awful.
Has Improve Your Conversations: Think on Your Feet, Witty Banter, and Always Know What to Say with Improv Comedy Techniques turned you off from other books in this genre?
No, I feel like the author makes several good points and I am still interested in reading it myself.
How did the narrator detract from the book?
The narrator is awful. It sounded like they recorded him reading the text for the first time and he didn't know what to expect. I gave it a good solid attempt, but couldn't bare it after two chapters.
1 person found this helpful
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- Pamela Madix
- 06-04-16
One man's ideas
Yet another in the line of "one person's observations" though this time from an improv actor who even confesses he was not good at it. Not much is backed by sound research or endorsed by clown college. The narrator's monotone is ironic given the comedy and entertainment theme.
1 person found this helpful