What's the best way to develop a charming personality for business and in life?

I've tried listening to some of those "Art of Charm" Podcasts in order to try to give myself an edge in networking opportunities. Do you have any other advice on Podcasts or lectures on this topic?

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Be a well rounded person, do some intersting stuff. For example, you like to go Skydiving on the weekends, topic comes up in a conversation: "yeah, i go skydiving, have you ever been?" they haven't? "I am heading out there this weekend, you should come its fun....etc etc"

BOOM! you have a date... if you do it right.

Now for the real advice: Don't dwell in your own mind too much when interacting with others. Attempt to display genuine interest in the well being of other people. Act socially appropriate. The more experience you gain in social situations the easier it becomes. I have a friend with Aspergers, he used to be awkward but can be pretty charismatic nowadays.

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I think you can't overlook the basics when it comes to communicating and interacting in your professional and social life.

  • Always make eye contact with the person your talking to, it shows your intentions are good and you are giving all your attention to the person in note

  • Don't talk over people when they are talking, pretty self explanatory. I hate it when people do it to me.

  • People love to talk about themselves, just ask them interesting appropriate questions for the context.

Just my $0.02 on social skills. Pretty basic but I have found these points helpful to remember

 

Whenever I read such (valid and great) advice I cannot help to imagine some clueless guy overdoing and coming across as a murderer...

 

It's hard to imagine a more Aspergers-like approach to "developing a charming personality" than listening to a podcast or lecture on how to do so. Can't tell if this is a troll or not because both are equally likely on WSO.

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I'm convinced that OP is a BuzzFeed "journalist" and that spamming these posts are ways to generate content.

Or just the creator of the obscure podcast he mentioned

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