Gain Social Awareness by Patrick King , Chapter by Chapter
How to read the room and understand the people and the situation instantly.
Social awareness is not a given these days. But if you have it, it will seem like you have a superpower because of how perceptive you'll be. But the secret is that it's not hard.
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Get inside people's heads with a simple conversation or observation.
GAIN SOCIAL AWARENESS AND BECOME SOCIALLY PERCEPTIVE is like giving you the manual to people's behavior. Once you see these things, you can never unsee them. You'll be able to speed-read people and situations from seemingly small and simple things... and you'll marvel at just how simple and predictable people can be.
Understanding others... leads to influencing others.
Patrick King is an internationally bestselling author and social skills coach. His writing draws of a variety of sources, from scientific research, academic experience, coaching, and real life experience.
Become the epitome of emotional and social intelligence.
-How to understand the best way to use your attention
-Body language: clusters and context and how to pick up on these instantly
-Interrupting, cooperation, overlapping, and how to make this all positive
-How to evaluate someone based on their 'capacity for intimacy' and 'goodness'
-Stereotypes and how they can truly work for you
-Four types of listening - the four ears model
-One key to identifying people's values quickly
-People's triggers and fears, and what they can tell you
Transcript
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Speaker:hello listeners and welcome to voice over work an audiobook sampler where do
Speaker:you listen today is June 10th 2025 today's featured book is gain social
Speaker:awareness and become socially perceptive how to read social cues emotions
Speaker:behavior and intentions by Patrick King this is part of his how to be more
Speaker:likeable and charismatic series according to the author social awareness is
Speaker:not a given these days but if you have it it will seem like you have a super
Speaker:power because of how perceptive you'll be but the secret is that it's not that
Speaker:hard you can get inside people's heads with a simple conversation or
Speaker:observation and this book is like a manual to people's behavior once you
Speaker:see these things you can never unsee them you'll be able to speed read people
Speaker:in situations from seemingly small and simple things and you'll marvel at just
Speaker:how simple and predictable people can be now today's episode is a chapter by
Speaker:chapter preview of this book from Patrick King we're gonna play the first few
Speaker:minutes of each chapter just to give you an idea of the contents and the style
Speaker:that you'll see in this book so before we grab the excerpts from the actual book
Speaker:let's do a chapter rundown here so you can anticipate what's coming up in this
Speaker:in the episode chapter one is learning to listen and the author tells us that
Speaker:through people watching understanding body language reading voice and
Speaker:interpreting the different styles of smiles we can better learn to read
Speaker:people understand where they're coming from and what they might do next chapter
Speaker:two is entitled how to read the room there's an important point here right
Speaker:at the beginning of the chapter of knowing when the conversation is over
Speaker:studies have shown that most conversations carry on longer than the
Speaker:participants wish they would it's important to know when to cut and run
Speaker:there's such a thing in conversation as well as cooperative overlapping where
Speaker:you work together with your conversational partner to make the
Speaker:conversation flow and make it very productive and enjoyable tucked into
Speaker:this chapter are some clues to the character of the person you're dealing
Speaker:with and these can be real helpful and then a little item called the server
Speaker:test take a look at that one it'd be it's interesting at the end of chapter
Speaker:two chapter three is to challenge your assumptions to build real empathy and
Speaker:here we all know that we have our own cognitive distortions that interrupt
Speaker:our perception of the real world we perceive it fine but we interpret it
Speaker:incorrectly and by getting rid of cognitive distortions by understanding
Speaker:stereotypes and how we consciously or unconsciously apply them to the people
Speaker:we're conversing with how they can hinder or help a relationship chapter four
Speaker:is how to understand people by understanding the language they use
Speaker:there's a concept in here called the four ears model and it's not a physical
Speaker:deformity something you should check out and the concept of weasel words you
Speaker:should know your weasel words when to use them how to avoid them and how to
Speaker:watch for them in a conversation and finally chapter five digging deeper to
Speaker:learn what really makes people tick you have to know a person on some level to
Speaker:have a real conversation with them and you get to do that by learning to listen
Speaker:and understanding what's going on inside their heads something you have to do
Speaker:quite quickly in a conversation with the new acquaintance what meltdowns and
Speaker:tantrums in our core fears can do to help or hinder a conversation and
Speaker:understanding people and what people's friendships say about them and also learn
Speaker:how to predict a person's social behavior so that's quite a list just a
Speaker:quick rundown of the chapters to give you an idea of what this book contains
Speaker:let's start now with chapter one again the first few minutes from each chapter
Speaker:and then we'll sign off for today's episode thanks for joining us
