The Conversation Code: How to Upgrade Your Social Skills and Your Life

I've purchased books that have 90% fluff in them like "be funny" or "be a good listener" but zero value in actionable steps to improve your conversation skills.Those points may be true but at some point YOU have to talk and say something.The author in my opinion has created THE definitive guide to becoming a great conversationalist. He has demystified and has deconstructed exactly what an excellent conversationalist does and says to open,hold, and connect during a conversation. I have always envied people who seem to be talk with strangers, friends, and the opposite sex with the most exciting stories/life experiences, opinions, observation, & witty comments but had zero idea what they were doing that seem to come to them so naturally. Finally this book details exactly how to be that person.It is no exaggeration that there are over 1000+ real life examples in this book. These real life examples are what other social-improvement books lack as the 1000+ word-for-word examples are the actionable steps/techniques to transform you into an fun/excellent conversation partner that I'm so excited to learn and practice. The book details exactly how, what to say, how to build & live your life so you are generating a conversations storage tank to always have things to say, how to improve your words and make it exciting/funny. It's also a sort of self-discovery book since it forces you to think about what opinions or observations you have about a multitude of topics & encourages and shows you how to be active in life to generate those great life experience stories to share & make others laugh. There's a certain type of humor/banter/teasing that guys talk with each other or even flirting with the opposite sex and this book again includes word-for-word real life examples to teach you how to learn these skills.Until the Kindle version comes out I've bought two more copies so I don't lose this book. I feel like this is the book/resource I've been searching for all my life being socially awkward and am excited to see my social life improve dramatically in the near future. I don't write any book reviews and I'm only writing this to show my gratitude towards the author for creating this resource and encourage others who struggle socially to take a look at this book.

This is a very comprehensive and practical book on the subject of conversation, the author presented several models to describe the different elements of a succesful conversation and provided with lots of examples for each of his models and techniques.This book helps the reader ALOT on two very important aspects of conversation:1. Prearation - This part is VERY well described and very useful. This solves completely the problem of running out of things to say and instructs you on how to always have interesting and engaging conversation material. VERY GOOD!2. Improvisation - The author provides with a very intersting and very complete set of models to be able to create conversational material on the spot an improvise conversation in an engaging way.I truly believe that from the many books on conversation and communication I have read over the years this is definitely stands out as one of the very best.With the combination of the author's background in sales, eductaion and writng, he managed to create a wonderfully useful work on conversation that I believe should be read by everyone wanting to become an exceptional conversationalist.It is really a great book and for the value contained and the usefuleness of the content, I believe that it is a GREAT INVESTMENT and I totally recomend it!

This is the second time I've bought this book. Each time for a young person I know who can really use these skills. This review is based on the feedback (since they'll probably never get around to writing a review themselves) from the first person, my nephew:Pros: It's a COMPLETE guide to conversation. "There actually are over 1,000 real-life examples! There are plenty of fluffier books out there, but this is for introverts who like to read. I learned a ton. The more complex stuff is towards the middle and end. It has truly helped me. I wish Gregory would develop and app for it."Cons: "Too detailed for many readers. I could see why this book could earn a 5 star and also a 2 star review - it's not for everyone. It's dense and probably full of too many examples. It takes a while to get through. (But you can spend all that time you're not out meeting people to use it to give you confidence to finally get out there.)"

This book far outclasses any other communication book I've read so far. Instead of giving you "tips" and "tricks," he goes into the details of what makes sets an excellent communicator apart from a poor communicator. I have read and reread sections, tried some of his advice out, and I'm going to go back and read parts again because it's a really informative and pithy book.I love how the author has a humble attitude and says that everyone can achieve becoming a better communicator. He really boils it down to a science and something you can improve upon, and then he shows you how -- VERY specifically. No other book on social skills that I've read has gone so into detail and explained as well as this one has. It's kind of like going to an English comp class... but for conversation, not writing. I think it would be very helpful for anyone who has been trying to improve and is looking for someone to break the skills down step by step.

I've been reading a lot of books on conversational/social skills (Carnegie, Cialdini, NLP, body-language etc.) but so far this is my favourite. It provide a lot of examples and exercises for for eeach part of the conversation. Strongly recommended!