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Some good tips

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on January 19, 2021

Great book to read. There are definitely some great tips in here. Personally, I don't see myself following all of these tips as some come off as a bit odd or ingenuine, but most of them I found really helpful. My recommendation is to apply a grain of salt to what you read here, see if you would appreciate someone more or less for doing a tip before following it.

Note that this book seems to be more business oriented rather than friendship oriented, but many tips can be applied to both.

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Andrew

Smooth Read, but too Basic

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on January 9, 2023

There are a few good takeaways, but 2/3 of the tips are not that great. It felt like a low level read all in all, not sure how else to explain it. I think my hopes were just too high. Good for the price.

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Andrew

Smooth Read, but too Basic

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on January 9, 2023

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Hugo Trepanier

A lot of common sense and quite a bit of rubbish

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on February 11, 2006

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As a rather shy guy in his 20's who often faces difficulty initiating captivating conversations, I picked up this book hoping to learn a few fine tricks that would broaden my level of human understanding. Exceedingly good reader reviews admittedly produced high expectations, unfortunately only met with lukewarm results. It is not especially bad; just don't expect a complete makeover of your interactions with people, and be aware that it may apply to some people more than others.
The positive aspects:
- Concise, good to read in various small instalments and take time to reflect on the different techniques, appreciate them, and even make some real-life experiments in-between reading sessions. Easily discard the ones that don't make sense to your particular way of life.
- Contains some really good new ideas and excellent techniques that you can use to effectively communicate with people in various situations, things to keep in mind, blunders to avoid and good postures to adopt. One should not undermine the potential life-enhancing benefits of reading the few truly excellent gems.
- Several of these guidelines appear to be simple common sense if you have any perceptive amount of social experience, but it's appreciated to be reminded about these things by an external source to better grasp their implications.
- Some amusing anecdotes will make you laugh, such as the businesswoman's encounter with a group of potential Japanese partners.
The negative aspects:
- Early on, the tone gave me the impression of a much older, chiefly superficial woman, who does not fundamentally encourage having any sense of humour. She is also remarkably unforgiving in her judgement and did not appear sympathetic to me at all in the way she constantly refers to people as "big winners" and "little losers". That sentiment eventually diminished with time, though I could not help but still feel the writer did not specifically address people of my generation with the unimaginative humour and old-fashioned rationale. All of this is possibly better suited at people 40 and up, mostly businesspeople, which is a big letdown from my point of view.
- Suffers from a very average level of language for the most part, such as repeated attempts to break words down in syl-la-bles as an awkward and decidedly superfluous way to emphasise. Also plagued with too many expressions targeted at the lowest common denominator, particularly in the way she makes her "characters" talk.
- There is no scientific evidence to support most of the claims; it is all purely based on the author's personal experiences or deductions. Some statistics are unaccounted for, such as when she says you only need 50 new words in your vocabulary to make a remarkable difference, or that you get 80% of the right lingo and insider questions from just one exposure to any given field. Leil Lowndes even goes on to explain how Eve commanded Adam to eat the infamous apple with the power of language, which I found absurd.
- Most tips are given far too brief coverage and when it gets really interesting you are whisked away onto other subjects. I would have appreciated a lengthier study or more in-depth analysis of the human behaviours at work in these examples.
- A lot of it just didn't make sense to me, such as the notion that knowing a little bit of nothing about everything will get you anywhere (I believe people of any specific expertise will still be able to spot the uninitiated even if you know a handful of keywords pertaining to their precise industry or competence, which won't get you much further).
Overall, this book didn't impress me at all.

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Some good tips

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on January 19, 2021

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A must read book for everyone

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on September 14, 2019

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Leil, has struck solid gold with this text. Think of a modern and practical Dale Carnegie "How to Win Friends and Influence People" - but better. Leil has dissected the nuances in human communication and has unearthed a series of useful techniques that can elevate your interactions with any audience. What I like most, Leil teaches you how to ensure your style comes across with credibility and thoughtfulness. This book is a must have for anyone who deals with clients or requires high levels of interaction. This book should be a text and course taught in every university. I assure you if you use this text, practice the 92-lessons, you can easily surpass the influence of any Ivy League graduate.

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Useful tips help make new friends

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on November 10, 2016

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Gave some good tips on talking to people, and I would specifically recommend it to people who want to meet people and make new friends as they join a new club or move to a new city. Of course, it is still beneficial to those who simply want to improve their social skills. The book makes some good points, and I like the way the tips are easy to memorise through the use of a catchphrase, but there were too many anecdotes for each tip, even up to three sometimes pointless stories. Once you understand the communication strategy, just move on to the next one, because you could spend lots of time reading multiple anecdotes when only one is truly necessary.

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Ach

I do not like the writing style at all, however the information is useful

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on May 26, 2021

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I can not stand the arrogance, and the biased writing tone - However I am forced to admit that the tricks discussed in this book are useful, thus I’ll rate this 5 stars, and I would recommend reading it.

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Good read

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on January 10, 2019

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This book so far has been a good read. It has lots of little tips and points out things I never would have thought of. It arrived on time but was a little beat up. The front cover is damaged but still enjoying it nevertheless.

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boby

One of the best book on the subject I've read

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on September 18, 2017

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Incredible book with immediate result. I wonder why they don't give theses kind of books as lecture to students in schools. I've read at least 4-5 books similar to this one and "How to talk to anyone" is the best one by far. The tips are really easy to apply and the way the book is made is great too, every tips is a chapter so you can easily read this when you have a few minutes of free time without getting sick of it. "How to make friends" was great and this book is really more adapted to business reality and today's reality.

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Wabba Fett

Not easy to follow the stories and connect them with personal encounters

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on July 18, 2018

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As my title states, the stories with a conclusion tagged on to the end isn't my cup of tea. It's more like an advice novel using examples from the writer's experiences. In my opinion, it would be easier to follow and understand if there were scenarios for examples.

In a nutshell, it covers social etiquette.
Personally, this is not what I needed.

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Mandip Khaira

A must buy!

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on July 26, 2021

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Amazing book! Ton of great tips for everyone

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