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Let's Talk: How to Have Better Conversations

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Throughout the book, we are shown the importance of a good conversationalist being driven by knowledge. With insights from ‘professional conversationalists’ from various sectors, this is a thoughtful read with some practical takeaways on how to have better conversations. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

A self-declared passion project which reminds a great radio presenter and his audience that we have two ears, should be curious and find common ground with enemies. That being said, Arthanyake conducted some great interviews for the book and I enjoyed many of his/their insights into conversations and the psychology around the subject.It’s a very personal anecdotal take on conversation, the basic principles are ones that have been repeated in various places so nothing really enlightening. This deeply personal and supportive series offers listeners an honest and relatable insight into how some the UK's best-known celebrities have coped with mental health difficulties, ranging from OCD to insomnia, addiction to grief, and depression to anxiety.

He wants to know what it really means to have a ‘great conversation’ and, most importantly, how he can teach us to have better interactions in our everyday lives. Then on page 33 the author Introduces us to Johann Hari’s book Stolen Focus (which I subsequently bought) then the pearls of wisdom appearThe book is not a self-improvement book i. This is the first time I have come across a book like this, which brings together an authority in conversation (in my opinion) alongside an eclectic mix of experts, and psychological theories, combined with celebrity opinion. I read this at the same time as Malcolm Gladwell's Talking to Strangers and despite the books being on a similar topic/approach, this is hands down the better of the two. In many ways this is not like any of the books I have read in the past, in the sense that this is not an easily read fiction book, or even an autobiography.Rather the book is a meandering (and sometimes somewhat self-indulgent) description about why conversation is a lost art (yes, you guessed it… phones/social media/increasingly polarised societies) and why this needs to be reversed.

Whilst as a society we can benefit from instant messaging through text and WhatsApp, we are primed to hear rather than see. Part how-to and part manifesto, Let’s Talk is Nihal’s accessible, anecdotal and invigorating toolkit to having better conversations with anyone, any time.Instead this is quite a self-centred and self-congratulatory tract based on conversations with other people.

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