Communication Skills Training: A Practical Guide to Improving Your Social Intelligence, Presentation, Persuasion and Public Speaking (Positive Psychology Coaching Series Book 9) by Tuhovsky Ian

Author:Tuhovsky, Ian [Tuhovsky, Ian]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2015-06-24T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12: How to Become a Master of the Sharp Retort

Everyone knows the feeling of finding only emptiness in your head at the exact moment a retort that’s sharp like a razor, perfectly matched to the context, is what you need most. It’s one of those things you don’t want to happen often, yet it keeps coming back during the most unexpected situations. Wouldn’t it be great to always have smart, sharp and funny retorts at hand, everywhere and anytime you want them?

It's high time to master the art of responding with witty retorts to any unpleasant comments and annoying remarks aimed at you. Below, you will find 10 ways to train a sharp tongue that will surprise your friends, parents, colleagues from work, strangers on the street and even your dog.

You probably know the annoying feeling when you keep coming back to a past situation, imagining what you could have said and how the annoying person would look if you had this or that great response in your mind back then. These are usually the moments when you’ve already managed to calm yourself down and have had a while to rethink things. That’s when suddenly, the best retorts come to mind, but “If I only said that!” doesn’t change anything as it’s already too late.

To annihilate this problem, you need to learn things that will fill your head with hundreds of retorts for any given occasion.

The art of the retort is very subtle. Not only is it about knowing what to say in a particular moment, but it also needs to be done and said in the right way. It is not enough to know only the techniques that can help you find a great retort, but a foundation, the right approach to what other people say.

A mix of all these elements creates a special skill that allows you to have your guard up all the time without any effort from your side.

Granted, I won’t give you any prewritten texts or so-called “canned material” here. Learning someone else’s retorts by heart would be the best recipe for making you as close to sharp retorts as politicians are to telling the truth. Believe me, such an approach would make you miss that perfect moment to shoot your verbal bullet as each single time you would wonder, “Which response should I use?” for too long.

Instead of that, in this chapter I will tell you about spontaneity—the key to make your answers natural, different and unique each single time. So if you are ready and want to become a master of the witty retort, get to know each of the points below and start to work!

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