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$ eldr --course talking

Talking to people is a set of moves

The mechanics of conversation: openers, questions, listening, silence, and how to enter a room and leave it.

Topic
Social
Days
7
Per day
22 min
Access
free
A top-down room plan marking which clusters of people are open to approach and which are closed, with approach vectors from the entry.

Conversation is a set of moves, not a personality trait, and the moves can be listed. Seven days of mechanics for a man who finds rooms hard, from the first thirty seconds to what to do after you say something stupid.

  1. Conversation is mechanics, not charisma19 min
  2. The first thirty seconds22 min
  3. Questions that get an answer20 min
  4. Listening, which is the whole skill22 min
  5. Silence, and the two-second problem22 min
  6. Entering a group and leaving one27 min
  7. When it goes wrong, and the rate25 min