How to Communicate Successfully is one in a series of five books. There are seven chapters, each dealing with a different aspect of communicating.
There are several different sections in each chapter, and some may be more interesting and relevant to you than others. There is no need to read every section. I hope you will find it all interesting and entertaining, and that your reading of English will improve as well as your communicating.
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You may be reading the book while studying English in a class, with a teacher, or you may be reading it at home in the evenings, or on a train, or anywhere else-it doesn't matter!What I do hope is that you enjoy reading about communicating successfully-in English!
Contents
Thanks About this book
Some thoughts about communicating
Only connect!
We'll hunt tonight
Words, gestures and clothing
The children who couldn't speak
People who can't understand
Checklist for successful
communication
How to use verbal language
Why do we want to communicate?
Why is he speaking?
But he doesn't mean what he says!
words!words! words!
Does‘ch'a’mean‘tea’?
We don't seem to speak the same language!
The generation gap
The knowledge gap
Characteristics of everyday speech
Language and thinking
Speaking in different ways
What are they saying?
Don't play the wrong music!
Talking to foreign visitors
How to understand body language
Look as well as listen!
I can read him like a book... or can I?
But it's only natural!
Some non-verbal language is‘natural’and some isn't
The head toss
The history of the head toss meaning ‘No’
The true and authentic head toss!
What does this position mean?
Curtain up!
What is she saying... What is he thinking?
What do these gestures mean?
‘She’s a typical librarian!
But these are real people!
What about you?
How to read a face
Our faces and-our personalities
Our faces and our expressions
Eyes: the windows of the soul
Your eyes and your personality
Eye contact in conversation
How to use space
The Englishman's home is his castle
Talking, sitting and standing
Give me elbow room!
Some general guidance for visitors to North America and Britain
Crowded places
Do you touch people?
Touching in four cities
Common touching and uncommon touching in the West
How to recognise the roles people play
An introduction to roles
Three people in every person
How to recognise a parent
How to recognise an adult
How to recognise a child
Can you recognise the parent, the adult and the child in yourself?
Don't get your lines crossed!
Things aren't what they seem to be!
What sort of game do you play?
I'm no good at anything really
They are no good
I'm only trying to help
If only I wasn't so busy
Sweetheart
Kiss me? You must be joking!
Why are games important?
It's not alway easy
How to get on with people
How to be a good listener
Repeating what the other person has said
Encouraging and discouraging
How to be a good
conversationalist
Statements and questions
Open and closed questions
The‘agree with me’question
Double questions
Agreeing and disagreeing
A good conversation
Politeness and‘pass-time’
conyersarions
Do you often keep away from other people?
Do you often exchange politenesses with people?
Do you talk to people just to pass the time?
How to start a conversation in Brirain
Another approach
Conversational flowchart
How to interest someone of the opposite sex
First stage
Second stage
How to argue
Do you really want to argue?
If you don't want to hurt the other person
Three ways of arguing
Ethos
Logos
Pathos
All three!
General advice
Some important points for thinkers and arguers
Facts
Generalisations
Hypothesis
Criticising the other person
Some very poor arguments!
How to protect yourself against salespeople
How to observe the customer...YOU!
The salesperson is taught what to say to you
On the telephone
The questions a salesperson uses
It isn't only words that sell!
The ideal interview
Last thoughts
Answers
Acknowledgements
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真正让我觉得这本书价值非凡的,是它对于“沉默”与“留白”的探讨。在充斥着“表达”、“说服”、“立刻回应”的时代背景下,这本书罕见地为“不说话”赋予了强大的力量和复杂的语境。作者没有将沉默视为沟通的缺失,反而将其解读为一种积极的、充满信息量的策略工具。书中通过多个案例分析了如何在谈判僵局中,利用适度的停顿来重置双方的心理平衡点,或者如何在接收到负面反馈时,通过有意识的延迟回应,来展现对信息处理的尊重与审慎。这种对沟通负面空间的深入挖掘,极大地拓宽了我对“交流”二字的理解边界。它让我意识到,真正的交流大师,不仅要精通如何发出信号,更要精通如何管理和利用信号的缺失,这是一种高阶的、近乎于艺术的技能,而非简单的技巧叠加。这本书提供的视角,无疑是令人耳目一新的。
评分这本书的装帧设计得非常精巧,那种略带磨砂质感的封面摸起来手感极佳,色彩搭配上选择了沉稳的深蓝与典雅的米白,给人一种既专业又不失亲和力的感觉。我尤其欣赏书脊上的字体选择,那种略带衬线的字体显得非常大气,即便是随意放在书架上,也能立刻吸引我的目光。初次翻开时,我被其清晰的排版所折服,行距和字号的设置考虑得非常周到,即便是长时间阅读,眼睛也不会感到疲劳。作者在内容组织上似乎也下足了功夫,每一章的标题都像是精心打磨过的诗句,引人入胜,让人迫不及待地想要探究其背后的奥秘。从目录结构来看,本书似乎遵循了一种由浅入深、层层递进的逻辑,从基础理论的构建到高级技巧的应用,脉络清晰,结构严谨,这让我对即将展开的阅读旅程充满了期待。这本书的纸张质量也是一流的,没有廉价印刷品常有的那种刺鼻气味,这一点对于注重阅读体验的读者来说,绝对是一个巨大的加分项。
评分我尝试着在工作会议中应用书中所提及的“倾听的层次划分”理论,效果之显著,让我感到有些不可思议。以往的会议,总是我方在说,对方在听,或者更糟的是,双方都在等待轮到自己发言的时间。但这本书教会我的,是如何识别听者在“被动接收”、“主动理解”和“深层共鸣”这三个不同层次上的停驻点。我不再满足于对方点头表示听到了,而是通过调整提问的深度和侧重点,巧妙地引导对方进入更深层次的思考环节。比如,在面对一个关键决策时,我没有直接给出解决方案,而是采用了书中提到的“基于假设的反向提问”,成功地激发了团队成员对现有方案潜在漏洞的集体反思。这不仅仅是技巧上的胜利,更像是一种思维模式的重塑。这本书并非简单地教你“说什么”,而是深刻地训练你“如何设计一个让信息能够有效到达目的地的流程”,这种全局观的培养,对于任何需要与人协作的专业人士来说,都是无价的财富。
评分这本书的阅读体验,可以被描述为一种“间歇性的惊喜爆发”。它不是那种一气呵成的通俗读物,更像是一本需要反复咀嚼、时常停下来做笔记的工具书。我发现,有些章节的内容,初读时可能感觉信息量过载,难以消化,但当我将书本合上,去观察周围的人际互动时,那些抽象的理论框架会突然“激活”,我开始能清晰地辨认出日常对话中那些微妙的、之前从未察觉的沟通断层。比如,书中关于“情绪带宽”的论述,让我对一些长期存在的误解有了新的认识——很多时候,所谓的“沟通不畅”,并非是语言的笨拙,而是双方预留给对方的情绪承载空间不足。我甚至开始在自己的书桌上贴上这本书里提到的一些“关键提醒卡片”,它们不是教条,而更像是对自我状态的即时校准工具。这种持续性的互动和反思,远比一次性的知识输入要来得持久和深刻。
评分说实话,我拿到这本书的时候,内心是抱持着一丝怀疑态度的,毕竟市面上关于“方法论”的书籍多如牛毛,真正能做到独树一帜、让人茅塞顿开的少之又少。然而,这本书的引言部分却以一种近乎哲学的探讨方式,迅速地抓住了我的注意力。作者没有急于抛出具体的“招式”或“套路”,而是从人类认知偏差和信息传递的底层逻辑入手,构建了一个宏大而坚实的基础框架。这种溯本求源的做法,让我意识到作者的视野远超出了日常的“技巧层面”,而是直指问题的核心——即我们如何感知世界,以及这种感知如何影响我们的表达。文中穿插的那些充满生活气息的小故事和历史典故,被巧妙地用作理论支撑的实例,使得原本可能晦涩的理论变得鲜活而易于理解。我特别留意到作者在论述复杂概念时,经常使用类比的手法,例如将信息流比作水流的阻力与导流,这种生动的比喻极大地降低了理解门槛,让人感觉仿佛身边有一位经验丰富的前辈在耳提面命。
评分很棒,读起来轻松而又有收获。
评分很棒,读起来轻松而又有收获。
评分很棒,读起来轻松而又有收获。
评分很棒,读起来轻松而又有收获。
评分很棒,读起来轻松而又有收获。
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