How to Have a Beautiful Mind - practice
Despite the modern day emphasis on physical appearance, there is an easier way to become a desirable person rather than dieting or buying expensive clothes. Regardless of outer appearance, if people have minds that are fascinating, creative, and exciting—if they are good thinkers—they can be beautiful. The clear, practical instructions in this guide demonstrate how applying lateral and parallel thinking skills to conversation can improve the mind. The greatest impact is made on others through speech, and by learning how to listen, make a point, and maneuver a discussion, anyone can become more imaginative, more engaging, and more beautiful. (From the back cover of the book)
We can practice the methods in this book by creating an Edward de Bono Conversation Club here and making up (fictional) conversations using the methods. Everyone can add lines to these conversations but always indicate which method from the book is used to come up with each line. You can also use de Bono's book How to be More Interesting.
SUMMARY (mostly/partly in my own words)
How to Agree
You can agree under special circumstances, special values, special experience. You can tell others how you agree (with what aspects of their statement), before telling how you don't agree. If you agree with everything you're not contributing much. Disagreeing with everything isn't nice for the other person.
This is just a summary of tiny part of the book so far.
We can practice the methods in this book by creating an Edward de Bono Conversation Club here and making up (fictional) conversations using the methods. Everyone can add lines to these conversations but always indicate which method from the book is used to come up with each line. You can also use de Bono's book How to be More Interesting.
SUMMARY (mostly/partly in my own words)
How to Agree
You can agree under special circumstances, special values, special experience. You can tell others how you agree (with what aspects of their statement), before telling how you don't agree. If you agree with everything you're not contributing much. Disagreeing with everything isn't nice for the other person.
This is just a summary of tiny part of the book so far.
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Permalink Reply by Andy on -
- Scientists have been able to detect when people were dreaming about certain images that they had previously been shown.
(Using the suggestion to start a conversation by using a newspaper story.)
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Permalink Reply by Andy on
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Have you told your friend, politely, that you enjoy talking with him too, and that he should give you some more opportunity to do this (instead of him talking so much and you just listening)?
The telescopic text and your last post were amusing, hehe!
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Permalink Reply by Andy on
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How to Agree
You can agree under special circumstances, special values, special experience. You can tell others how you agree (with what aspects of their statement), before telling how you don't agree. If you agree with everything you're not contributing much. Disagreeing with everything isn't nice for the other person.
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Permalink Reply by Andy on
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Aha, you are using point two on that page: 'Interest may arise from interesting things you have done, are doing or know about. Interest can also arise from how you conduct a conversation.'.
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Permalink Reply by Phil Bachmann on -
Kim,
Re: How to combat people who dominate a conversion.
My suggestion: Interrupt them with questions related to what they have been saying.
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