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How To Be The Most Engaging Person In The Room... Every Time

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For every bit of courage you put out into the world, you receive twice the amount of confidence in return. — location: 64 ^ref-28937

know that you are making progress when you feel a bit uncomfortable. — location: 65 ^ref-52564

make them feel like they are interesting to you. Make them feel like you care about what they are saying. — location: 121 ^ref-26654

Take something that the other person has said to you, re-phrase it to show that you are paying attention, and then add in a dash of encouragement- this is the frame of a supporting statement. — location: 161 ^ref-11402

Make the person feel even more amazing and more listened to than anyone else has in the past year. — location: 169 ^ref-17831

It is a very intoxicating feeling when you are talking to someone and you feel like, on some level, you can do no wrong.  They aren't judging you or mocking you, they just accept you. — location: 188 ^ref-29235

We love to hear about ourselves and how others perceive us. — location: 194 ^ref-54508

Character, Problem, Resolution. — location: 210 ^ref-18627

taking a single word or phrase that your conversational partner has said and drilling down into it in a new direction. — location: 222 ^ref-37557

they buy the results you give them and the emotions you make them feel. — location: 250 ^ref-2082

People don't really care about the content of what you are saying, but rather they care about the emotion behind what you are saying and how you make them feel. — location: 251 ^ref-26682

"what" and "how" based questions to "why" and "feel" based questions. — location: 269 ^ref-42664

"How are you feeling tonight?" and "Why do you think you chose that line of work?" — location: 271 ^ref-17909

If you are always in a great mood or can only speak about positive subjects, then people will not trust your emotional range and will assume that you are hiding something from them. — location: 325 ^ref-13546

'Internal Snooze Button.' — location: 354 ^ref-1628

dig deep when you are talking to people.  Show your passions, show your wound, and be engaging by being engaged. — location: 364 ^ref-6828