Barry Maher’s
Filling the Glass Newsletter
Speaking of Real World Tactics,
Reality-Based Motivation
February, 2015 Vol. 15 Issue 1
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Article: You Can Be Fascinating Without Saying a Word |
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Hi Everyone:
Who wouldn’t love to be fascinating? Apparently, it’s far easier than most of us imagine. Thus this month’s article.
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Barry
You Can Be Fascinating without Saying a Word
by Barry Maher
I always tell audiences that listening not only can make other people more interesting to you, it can make you more interesting to others. I was doing the keynote speech at a convention a while back, and afterwards, each of the speakers hosted a table at their awards dinner. The woman sitting on my right never stopped talking. Not for a moment. Not even to take a breath. I never got a word in edgewise and never even got to acknowledge the person seated on my left. (The ghost of Osama Ben Laden would have been sitting there naked for all I knew.)
Ten or twelve hours later when the meal finally ended, I crawled up to my hotel room. No sooner did I get there than I decided what I really needed was a visit to the bar for a drink or six.
I went to elevator, pushed the button, the elevator arrived and the doors opened. And who is standing there but the woman, talking (of course) to a companion.
“Oh, hello” she cries, refocusing the flow of words in my direction as she and her friend step off the elevator.
The horror!
Acknowledging her quickly, I jump on the elevator and as the doors start to close, I hear her say to her friend, “You know I had dinner with him tonight and he is most fascinating conversationalist.”
I’d never opened my mouth, the entire dinner.
Nothing makes you more interesting than listening.
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