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How to adapt to different speaking situations
How to engage with an audience
How to use body language effectively
Keep Them Second Guessing
Conceal your intentions, don't reveal the purpose behind your actions. Confuse the competition by acting unpredictably.
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No Free Lunch
What is offered for free is dangerous – It usually involves either a trick or a hidden obligation. By paying your own way, you stay clear of gratitude, guilt, and deceit.
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(Speak) Less Is More
Impress and intimidate by saying less. The more you say, the more likely you are to say something foolish.
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The Art Of Timing
Never appear in a hurry. Always seem patient, as if you know that everything will come to you eventually. Learn to stand back when the time is not yet ripe and to strike fiercely when it has reached fruition.
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Actions Over Arguments
Any triumph through argument is not worthwhile, the resentment lasts long. It is much more powerful to get others to agree with you through your actions without saying a word.
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Day 7:
- You will kill three birds with one stone: You appear friendly, open, and trusting; you conceal your intentions; and you send your rivals on time-consuming wild-goose chases.
- The best deceptions require a screen of smoke to distract people attention from your real purpose.
- Hid...
Day 6:
- Keep people off-balance and in the dark by never revealing the purpose behind your actions.
- If they have no clue what you are up to, they cannot prepare a defense.
- Guide them far enough down the wrong path, envelop them in enough smoke, and by the time they realize your inten...
“Our actions may be impeded…but there can be no impeding our intentions or dispositions. Because we can accommodate and adapt. The mind adapts and converts to its own purposes the obstacle to our acting."
MARCUS AURELIUS
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