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11th Jun 2025

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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hello listeners and welcome to voice over work an audiobook sampler where do

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you listen today is June 10th 2025 today's featured book is gain social

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awareness and become socially perceptive how to read social cues emotions

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behavior and intentions by Patrick King this is part of his how to be more

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likeable and charismatic series according to the author social awareness is

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not a given these days but if you have it it will seem like you have a super

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power because of how perceptive you'll be but the secret is that it's not that

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hard you can get inside people's heads with a simple conversation or

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observation and this book is like a manual to people's behavior once you

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see these things you can never unsee them you'll be able to speed read people

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in situations from seemingly small and simple things and you'll marvel at just

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how simple and predictable people can be now today's episode is a chapter by

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chapter preview of this book from Patrick King we're gonna play the first few

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minutes of each chapter just to give you an idea of the contents and the style

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that you'll see in this book so before we grab the excerpts from the actual book

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let's do a chapter rundown here so you can anticipate what's coming up in this

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in the episode chapter one is learning to listen and the author tells us that

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through people watching understanding body language reading voice and

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interpreting the different styles of smiles we can better learn to read

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people understand where they're coming from and what they might do next chapter

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two is entitled how to read the room there's an important point here right

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at the beginning of the chapter of knowing when the conversation is over

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studies have shown that most conversations carry on longer than the

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participants wish they would it's important to know when to cut and run

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there's such a thing in conversation as well as cooperative overlapping where

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you work together with your conversational partner to make the

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conversation flow and make it very productive and enjoyable tucked into

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this chapter are some clues to the character of the person you're dealing

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with and these can be real helpful and then a little item called the server

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test take a look at that one it'd be it's interesting at the end of chapter

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two chapter three is to challenge your assumptions to build real empathy and

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here we all know that we have our own cognitive distortions that interrupt

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our perception of the real world we perceive it fine but we interpret it

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incorrectly and by getting rid of cognitive distortions by understanding

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stereotypes and how we consciously or unconsciously apply them to the people

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we're conversing with how they can hinder or help a relationship chapter four

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is how to understand people by understanding the language they use

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there's a concept in here called the four ears model and it's not a physical

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deformity something you should check out and the concept of weasel words you

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should know your weasel words when to use them how to avoid them and how to

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watch for them in a conversation and finally chapter five digging deeper to

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learn what really makes people tick you have to know a person on some level to

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have a real conversation with them and you get to do that by learning to listen

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and understanding what's going on inside their heads something you have to do

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quite quickly in a conversation with the new acquaintance what meltdowns and

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tantrums in our core fears can do to help or hinder a conversation and

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understanding people and what people's friendships say about them and also learn

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how to predict a person's social behavior so that's quite a list just a

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quick rundown of the chapters to give you an idea of what this book contains

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let's start now with chapter one again the first few minutes from each chapter

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and then we'll sign off for today's episode thanks for joining us

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