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career (knowledge, huge network of contacts, experience,
professional approach, proper education), relationships (soft
skills, self-confidence, emotional intelligence) and other areas.
It’s quite clear that all of your investments in the quality of
communication, in improving its standards, learning new
abilities or patterns and taking it to an entirely new level, lead
directly to improvement in your self-confidence, soft skills,
career, relationships and your entire life’s quality.
Have you ever considered how many times you intuitively
felt that maybe you lost something important or crucial,
simply because you unwittingly said or did something
which put somebody off? Maybe it was an unfortunate word,
bad formulation, inappropriate joke, forgotten name, huge
misinterpretation, an awkward conversation or a strange tone
of your voice? Maybe you assumed that you knew exactly
what a particular concept meant for another person and you
stopped asking questions? Maybe you asked so many
questions, you practically started an interrogation? Maybe you
could not listen carefully or could not stay silent for a
moment? How many times have you wanted to achieve
something, negotiate better terms or ask for a promotion and
failed miserably? It’s time to put that to an end with the
help of this book.
Personally, I have had some serious trouble with accurate
and effective communication during my lifetime, particularly
back in my childhood, teenage and early college years. On the
one hand, people usually liked me; I had a bunch of good
friends and was rather a social kind of a kid. On the other
hand, I can’t even count how many times I flunked really
important exams in my life because of the inability to send