The Charismatic Edge: The Art of Captivating and Compelling Communication

8. Silence can speak when you let it
You can’t not communicate: everything you do or don’t do communicates to another person. Keeping this in mind, when you’re silent, other people will develop an impression of you and what the silence means.
It’s important that you control what the silence means, because if you don’t others will—and they may not do it in the most useful ways.

mind—they are a choice
Embarrassment and awkwardness can only happen when you create these states within yoursel

When you fall in love with someone, chemicals such as oxytocin and phenethylamine cloud your reasoning, and you tend to see that person with few faults. When you fall out of love, the change in neurochemistry often causes you to feel the exact opposite

Rejection is simply information about another person’s perspective or circumstances

‘Whatever the thinker thinks, the prover proves.’

Remember, failure is a concept that was created by someone at some time in the past. It doesn’t actually exist.

You need to get to know your character—the truth about yourself. You need to get to like yourself and be comfortable with being yourself much more frequently.

After twenty years of working together and collaborating on five books, I still have nothing but praise for Owen Fitzpatrick ... His new book fills a gap in the literature of the field of NLP and the subject of charismatic living. More importantly, it is an everyday guide to vigorously pursue the life you want in a way that shines.’
Dr Richard Bandler

bridges that connect to each other. When you learn something for the first time, your brain creates a new bridge (also called a synaptic connection) between neurons, and the more you practise it, the more you reinforce that connection so that it becomes permanent.

There are billions of brain cells or neurons in our brain. Between them there are nerve connections or