How to Be Interesting
Simple Ways to Increase Your Personal Appeal
Number of pages: 192
Publisher: Capstone
BBB Library: Communication, Personal Success
ISBN: 9780857084064
Editorial Review
In order to survive on a daily basis, you have to have the attention of someone and, on some days, a lot of people. This is purely functional, but the need seems to go beyond that. Why do you want people to take an interest in you? Do you actually need them to? We think so. We want to be interesting to others for many reasons. Socially, it’s important for us to be interesting so in order not to be left out and ignored. Domestically, we want to be interesting for some of the more basic reasons of love and comfort. In business, we want to be interesting to our colleagues and be part of the team, to our clients so they continue doing business with us, and to our superiors so we are not overlooked when it comes to promotion and pay rises. Being of interest for most people is a primary requirement for wellbeing.
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Wisdom to Share
People who prefer thinking often tend to decide things from a detached view based on logic and reason.
If you are attuned to the way a person is feeling, you are more likely to hold their interest than someone who is not receptive to what is happening beneath the surface.
Emotional intelligence (EQ or EI) is all about the ability to perceive control and evaluate our emotions.
If you want to develop good, healthy relationships with other human beings, you need to be genuinely interested.
Open questions encourage the other person to talk, to describe, to elaborate, to explore and to continue talking.
To be interesting in a way that others will wish to connect with us, a close inspection of the image we portray is necessary.
The “interesting” person is open to collaborative ways of working together and sharing any failures or successes.
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