Ryan Prizio has narrated 4 audiobooks on Listento.it by 2 authors, with an average listener rating of 4.3★ across 4 ratings. The most-rated is Improve Your Social Skills.
Improve Your Social Skills
Summary
Improve Your Social Skills is a comprehensive, practical guide to social skills. It contains easy-to-understand explanations of social interaction, written by a professional social skills coach whose TEDx talk on overcoming the social challenges of Asperger's syndrome has been viewed over 100,000 times You'll learn how to: Make conversation (and keep conversation flowing smoothly) Read body language (and use your own body language to signal friendliness and confidence) Meet new people (and make friends with them) Tell stories in conversation (that don't bore your audience) Combat shyness and social anxiety (a little courage every day adds up) Date successfully (without manipulation or sneaky tricks) And more! I'm Dan Wendler, and I wrote this book because I believe everyone deserves a place to belong, and I didn't want poor social skills to hold anyone back from friendship and community - even if they struggle with social skills. I know firsthand how hard it is to struggle socially. Growing up I was bullied, harassed, and excluded - no matter how hard I tried to fit in. It wasn't until I was diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome that I put the puzzle pieces together. I realized I struggled socially because I didn't have any social skills. And just like any other skill, social skills can be learned. The guide you're about to hear is a compilation of the social principles I've learned during my lifetime of personal social skills study, as well as the techniques I developed while offering hundreds of hours of social skills coaching. These principles led me to a life full of close friendship and satisfying connection I believe that you, too can live a life full to the brim with friendship, connection, and love. I hope that after listening to Improve Your Social Skills, you'll believe it too.
©2014 Daniel Wendler (P)2015 Daniel Wendler
The Pygmy Dragon
Summary
Stolen from her jungle home and sold to a zookeeper, Pip knows only a world behind bars, a world in which a Pygmy warrior and her giant ape friends are a zoo attraction. She dreams of being human. She dreams of escaping to the world outside her cage. Then, the dragon Zardon kidnaps her into a new life. Pip rides dragonback across the Island-World to her new school - a school inside a volcano. A school where humans learn to be Dragon Riders. But this is only a foretaste of her magical destiny, for the Dragon Assassins are coming. They have floated an island across the Rift and their aim is nothing less than the massacre of all dragons. Now, the courage of the smallest will be tested to the utmost. For Pip is the Pygmy Dragon, and this is her tale.
©2014 Marc Secchia (P)2015 Marc Secchia
How to Make Conversation
Summary
A practical, step by step guide to making conversation. Learn how to have great conversations that flow well so you can feel confident when making small talk, flirting with a date, or making new friends. This guide includes: The Secret Of Conversation Flow What makes some conversations flow smoothly, and others sputter or feel awkward? In this section, I explain the principles of "Invitation" and "Inspiration" and how these two principles work together to create smooth, comfortable conversation. Invitation: The Art Of Good Questions Invitations help to add structure to a conversation by clearly communicating to your partner when it’s their turn to speak and giving them a topic to speak about. In this section, I discuss invitations in depth and teach you how to use them in your conversations. In addition, since most invitations are questions, I explain how to ask good questions and show how you can build rapport with others using questions. Inspiration: The Heartbeat Of Good Conversations It’s possible to build a conversation out of nothing but invitations, but there’s a better way. Through something I call an "inspiration", you help build conversation that feels more natural and that encourages more sharing and intimacy between you and your partner. This section explains what inspirations are and how they work. Inspiration In Practice Once you understand what inspirations are and what they can do for you, you’ll be eager to apply them in your everyday conversation. This section gives you the practical, step-by-step guidance you need to do just that. Invitation and Inspiration In Practice After you’ve learned about invitation and inspiration separately, it’s time to discover how they can work together.
©2014 Daniel Wendler (P)2014 Daniel Wendler
Level up Your Social Life
Summary
The Gamer's Guide to Social Success. If you can succeed at video games, you can succeed socially. That's the promise of Level up Your Social Life. Level up Your Social Life uses the video game concepts that you're already familiar with to teach you how to succeed socially. Want to be better at conversation? Pong holds the secret. Want to make more friends? Mario Kart can show you how. It's written by Daniel Wendler, a leading social skills expert and lifelong gamer. Daniel taught himself social skills to overcome the challenges of Asperger's Syndrome and became an author to share what he learned with the world. He's coached hundreds of people around the world in social skills, spoken at TEDx, and written an online social skills guide read by over a million people. He wrote Level up Your Social Life to help gamers everywhere make new friends, feel more confident, and have the best social life possible. If you want a guide to social success written by someone that gets what it's like to be a gamer, this is your book. Inside the guide, you'll learn things like: How to use "random encounters" to increase your social confidence. The Starcraft tactic that can help you manage conflict. What Left 4 Dead and friendship have in common. Plus, you'll be given real-world quests to help you take your social life to the next level. There's also achievements, side quests, and cheat codes and everything you need to excel socially. So what are you waiting for? Level up your social life today!
©2016 Daniel Wendler (P)2016 Daniel Wendler