Think Faster, Talk Smarter
How to Speak Successfully When You're Put on the Spot
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Narrated by:
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Matt Abrahams
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By:
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Matt Abrahams
About this listen
Read by the author.
Stanford lecturer and host of the #1 business podcast Think Fast, Talk Smart, Matt Abrahams, reveals the secrets to finding the right words when it counts.
Communication is crucial to success in life and business. However, it is not just big speeches that matter: it is also those critical, spur-of-the-moment situations for which we cannot prepare.
A prospective client asking unexpected questions during a sales pitch, a teacher singling you out for an answer during a class, a high-pressure meeting with senior executives at work, or even a heartwarming toast to deliver on the spot. All are fraught scenarios that might cause you to freeze up. The pandemic has only boosted this fear, by stripping the spontaneity from communication during lockdown, and then changing the communication landscape.
In this invaluable guide, Matt Abrahams provides a six-point methodology that will enable you to cut through the anxiety arising from these stressful, impromptu circumstances to create and deliver crisp, compelling and calm communication.
Think Faster, Talk Smarter is an energetic, engaging resource for anyone who wants to speak out, spread their ideas, and ultimately share their story.
When you purchase this title, an accompanying PDF will be available in your audiobook library along with the audio.
Critic Reviews
This is a great eye opener to blind spots and other opportunities in communication to truly set you up for success in all scenarios of communication.
Listen, read it and share it with friends and loved ones!
Be a sponge
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Great insights and structure
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Great
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It is lern skill you will get better prepared for surprise situations.
Simple and practical this
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If you have any experience in presenting and/or performing, this book will have little value to you.
The performance is good. The narrator speaks with practiced cadence and uses inflection and tone to control rhythm, which makes it easier to listen to.
The content is limited. Much of the book focused on suppressing, resolving, and managing anxiety, which is useful if this is something you experience; and not if you don't.
The book is already structured in two parts, and says you can skip ahead, but it is presented as though part 1 is critical to success and should not be skipped.
You can definitely skip it.
It would be more efficient to release the book in two parts, one to address anxiety and one with only the strategies. This way, listeners/readers can obtain the portion that is most useful to them, without bulking out the content.
Overall: 3/5 speeches. Not terrible, but limited in scope.
Useful for absolute beginners and people with crippling anxiety. Not much use for experienced speakers.
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