Full name: Tongue Fu!: How to Deflect, Disarm, and Defuse Any Verbal Conflict

Author: Sam Horn Year: 1996 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Self help, Psychology, Non Fiction, Business Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780312152277

If you've ever been tongue-tied - or if you've ever given a tongue-lashing (and regretted it), Tongue Fu! offers constructive alternatives that will turn hostility into harmony and help you avoid a mental breakdown in the face of aggression. With straightforward strategies and proven techniques, Tongue Fu! examines almost every kind of verbal conflict - from fights with your spouse or a stalemate with the kids - and shows how to use martial arts for the mind and mouth to deflect attacks, disarm disputes, and defuse any explosive situation. With Tongue Fu! you will learn words to use (and words to lose) in tense situations, the power of the phrase "You're right, " the tools to use when people push your "hot buttons, " how to handle a verbal bully who enjoys attacking and tormenting, how to gracefully exit an argument, what to say when you don't know what to say, how to use silence to your advantage, how to be pleasantly unpleasant, and how to take charge of your emotions. Similar books: How to Talk to Anyone by Leil Lowndes That's Not What I Meant! by Deborah Tannen People Skills by Robert Bolton Verbal Judo by George Thompson The Little Book of Talent by Daniel Coyle What Every Body is Saying by Joe Navarro Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss Just Listen by Mark Goulston Difficult Conversations by Douglas Stone The Happiness Advantage by Shawn Achor What to Say When you Talk To Yourself by Shad Helmstetter Grit by Angela Duckworth Psycho-Cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz Mastery by Robert Greene I Will Teach You To Be Rich by Ramit Sethi The Creative Curve by Allen Gannett Deep Work by Cal Newport High Performance Habits by Brendon Burchard Search Inside Yourself by Chade-Meng Tan