Verbal Judo, Second Edition
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Verbal Judo, Second Edition

The Gentle Art of Persuasion

  1. 224 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Verbal Judo, Second Edition

The Gentle Art of Persuasion

About this book

Verbal Judo is the martial art of the mind and mouth that can show you how to be better prepared in every verbal encounter. Listen and speak more effectively, engage people through empathy (the most powerful word in the English language), avoid the most common conversational disasters, and use proven strategies that allow you to successfully communicate your point of view and take the upper hand in most disputes.

Verbal Judo offers a creative look at conflict that will help you defuse confrontations and generate cooperation from your spouse, your boss, and even your teenager. As the author says, "when you react, the event controls you. When you respond, you’re in control."

This new edition features a fresh new cover and a foreword demonstrating the legacy of Verbal Judo founder and author George Thompson, as well as a never-before-published final chapter presenting Thompson’s "Five Universal Truths" of human interaction.

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Table of contents

  1. Dedication
  2. Contents
  3. Foreword
  4. A Decade Later
  5. Introduction Communication as a Noncontact Sport
  6. 1 Birth of a Communication Samurai
  7. 2 Motivating the Disagreeable
  8. 3 Baptism of Fire
  9. 4 Taking Crap with Dignity . . . and Style
  10. 5 The Nice, the Difficult, and the Wimp
  11. 6 Eleven Things Never to Say to Anyone (And How to Respond If Some Idiot Says Them to You)
  12. 7 The Crucible of the Street
  13. 8 The Most Powerful Word in the English Language
  14. 9 The Greatest Speech You’ll Ever Live to Regret
  15. 10 The Only Way to Interrupt People and Still Have Them Love You
  16. 11 Verbal Judo Versus Verbal Karate
  17. 12 The Five-Step Hard Style
  18. 13 The First Great Communication Art: Representation
  19. 14 The Second Great Communication Art: Translation
  20. 15 The Third Great Communication Art: Mediation
  21. 16 What Makes This All So Difficult
  22. 17 Readin’, ’Ritin’, and Rhetoric
  23. 18 How to Diagnose a Verbal Encounter
  24. 19 The Language of Reassurance
  25. 20 How to Fight Fair
  26. 21 Take the Giant LEAPS
  27. 22 Applying LEAPS to Your World
  28. 23 Persuasion for Fun and Profit
  29. 24 The Misunderstood Motivator
  30. 25 You Can Punish Without Drawing Blood
  31. 26 Dancing When You Might Have Stumbled
  32. 27 Verbal Judo as an Automatic Response
  33. 28 Final Chapter: The Five Truths That Fit All
  34. About the Author
  35. With Verbal Judo, you’ll learn how to
  36. Credits
  37. Copyright
  38. About the Publisher