Improve Your Conversations: Think on Your Feet, Witty Banter, and Always Know What to Say with Improv Comedy Techniques (2nd Edition) (How to be More Likable and Charismatic Book 13)

If you can accurately catch the emotions people are conveying, even though they may not be stating them explicitly, they will feel that you understand them better and be more drawn to you.

With so much focus on how to extract what you want from other people, what’s been lost is the seemingly simple revelation that conversation should actually be fun and enjoyable.

People generally don’t tell others about their emotional state, or how they feel about topics of conversation. You’ll rarely hear statements such as, “I am uncomfortable with this topic, but if you want to discuss this we can,” or, “This is a topic I am trying to avoid, so I am going to try to deflect by talking about the weather.”

Only a small minority of people will outright state how they feel in a conversation or discussion.

We can greatly increase our wit, banter, and conversational intelligence simply by imagining a collaborative and accepting process.

It’s that you can’t stay on the same topic forever, and the conversation needs to evolve in one way or another, or else interest will be lost.

the people involved in either a conversation or an improv scene will have an easier time if they intentionally create motion and seek to introduce new elements.

In the quest for motion and additional elements and angles, there is the danger of planning ahead with fixed ideas and destinations in mind.

Rule of Improv Comedy: Scenes and interactions must always be moving somewhere and creating motion.