Vanessa Van Edwards

If you're looking to improve your communication skills, this book is for you.
If you're already a professional communicator, this book is for you.
If you're anti-social and would prefer not to communicate with anyone, this book is for you. Seriously, there are tips for how to do just that!

Vanessa Van Edwards and her team of researchers have collected all the latest data and science around what makes for charismatic communication and present their findings in this volume. I learned sooooo much. I need a physical copy of this book that I can refer back to and start refining my own techniques to improve my communication skills.

I listened to the audio book narrated by the author. She does an excellent job.… (mehr)

Overall a decent book that had some useful tips, entertaining anecdotes and a healthy serving of pseudo-science (According to a person who is studying to be counsellor).

I think, I mainly enjoyed the book because it made me really think hard about my social interactions and the people in my life, in an attempt to understand them better, even if sometimes the tools I was supposed to be using according to the book were pseudo-science, it was still a thought provoking exercise that instilled a sense of empathy (Which is never a bad thing).

However, I disliked the ample dosage of childish phrases like "hacking your conversations" or "levelling up your social intelligence", I felt like they took away from the overall message of the book.

But perhaps I wasn't the intended audience which seems to be nerdy social awkward introverted people (Paraphrasing the author here) which I don't really identify with.
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