Review: Great Help for the Socially Challenged
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 13, 2013
If you are focused on making friends and being remembered in social situations, this book is for you.  The author clarifies basic concepts by clearly defining what he means by terms such as "courage," "competence," and "confidence."  He understands the importance of acting "as if."  He discusses such important sub-topics as touching and positioning and offers specific techniques such as "the belief destroyer."  It's easy to tell that this work is fundamentally sound because he gets the fundamental point correct, namely, focus on the other instead of on yourself.  If you are genuinely interested in the other person and ask open-ended questions, your approach cannot do anything but improve -- especially if you practice some of the other techniques Mr. Oliver details.