Bob Johansson has just sold his software company for a small fortune and is looking forward to a life of leisure. I hope that most of us won’t be in the positions that some of the interviewees were in, there are lessons to be learned about having better conversations with those we disagree with. Guests from the world's biggest stars to leaders of inner-city gangs have lauded his seemingly innate ability to stimulate positive discussions without the need for confrontation.

Arthanayake stated at the outset that this would be a book written based on his own experience so I was a little wary about how much depth he'd go for. When Billy can’t find the informant, he wonders if Kate is secretly harboring her, since the two grew close during Kate's weeks undercover. Really enjoyed the start, particularly the bit about children maths test snd how their hormones were impacted depending on whether they spoke to someone after or if the texted.We're not currently in the golden era of conversation - it has either eroded away into emojis or escalated into online wildfires. Let's Talk blends Nihal's experiences as an acclaimed interviewer with expert opinion on the secrets and psychology behind successful communication. As an audiobook format listening to the ‘guests’ and hear their take on how to have good conversations was great but I would’ve like more specific mechanics to learn from.

Harry Potter has never even heard of Hogwarts when the letters start dropping on the doormat at number four, Privet Drive.From ever-decreasing face-to-face meetings to echo chambers online, we no longer have the necessary tools to talk to each other. The beginning of the book, with its history of how societies perceived conversation, was interesting enough to me to raise this to a 3* review. Let's Talk blends Nihal's experiences as an acclaimed interviewer with expert and celebrity opinion on the secrets and psychology behind successful communication. Brilliant, insightful and a great opportunity to reframe how you talk to people and converse with them as well as most importantly, how you listen. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

It's clever, original, surprising and reading it made me appreciate why he is so good at what he does - he actually listens to the people he consults. To read him is to get a lesson from a master practitioner of the art -- Anita Anand, author of The Patient Assassin You may also be interested in. I enjoyed the voice clips of the people he interviewed and I wish that dialogue could have been more present. In the absolutely packed Act II, the dark fantasy resumes and the Sandman expands into the French Revolution, ancient Rome, 19th-century San Francisco, eighth-century Baghdad, and beyond.

When I first heard him interviewing someone, I genuinely thought he had forgotten his train of thought, the pauses and space between the interviewees conversation and his was something I’d never heard on radio before.