Verbal Judo (my verbal defense series #3 )
Verbal Judo
With comparisons to tongue fu book
Verbal judo is now the number 3 book in the series ordered via amazon as the remain.
The book is smaller and thinner than the tongue fu with ca 180 pages
I started reading the book together with making notices in Greek but soon I stopped noticing as most of the start of the book was filled by his stories as a cop and was quite boring to me .
The first interesting part was after chapter 9 and still with little or less than little interest , comparing to the Sam Horn's book . I found that the book repeats sometimes the same thing , which makes me rather disappointed. But more interesting is after chapter 12 as these chapters give more essential information with more difficult situations than someone will cope in the real life than a cop. But some of the tips he gives ar mostly for the American cop or person as for example the way of stripping words . That can't be made in the Greek reality unless adapted . But most of his tips need some cultivation in order to be used in practical basis , something that tongue fu-ism gives for immediate acting
The book uses rather simple language , with easy to read text and rather fast reading even for me who am using English as second language with about 3-9 max unknown words to me per page . IN contrast tongue Fu was little more difficult with more unknown words in a less text per page. The reason is that Verbal Judo had smaller font (Times 10 ) comparing to tongue Fu (seems as Georgia 12 ) .
Here is a contents listing:
- Birth of a communication samurai
- Motivating the disagreeable
- Baptism or fire
- Taking crap with dignity
- The nice the difficult the wimp [his definition of human styles wimp is the most difficult ]
- 11 things never to say to anyone (and how to respond )
- The crucible of the street
- The most powerful word of the English lang
- The greatest speech you ll ever live to regret
- The only way to interrupt people
- Verbal jusdo versus verbal karate
- The five step hard style
- The 1 great comm art : representation
- The 2 great comm art translation
- The 3 great comm art : mediation
- What makes this all so difficult
- Reading ritin and rhetoric
- How to diagnose a verbal encounter
- The language of reassurance
- How to fight fair
- Take the giant LEAPS [ his method for voluntary compliance ]
- Applying Leaps to your world
- Persuasion for fun and profit
- The misunderstood motivator
- You can punish without drawing blood
- Dancing when you might have stumbled
- Verbal judo as automatic response
- Final chapter : the five truths that fit all [this is a chapter not written in the fist edition and put here after the author has died ]
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