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What to Do When You're New: How to Be Comfortable, Confident, and Successful in New Situations
Written by Keith Rollag
Narrated by Walter Dixon
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Success starts with a simple act: doing something new. It can be starting a new job or school, or moving to a new neighborhood. It can be meeting a prospective client or attending a networking event. To achieve anything in life, you have to put yourself out there, meet new people, and try new things. But sometimes we freeze. Awkwardness, worry, and reluctance keep us stuck in our boxes. If we learn to conquer these natural anxieties, we can confidently seize life's opportunities.
In What to Do When You're New, Keith Rollag distills the work of leading scientists and his own original research into a groundbreaking formula for success. You'll learn not only why we feel so uneasy in new situations, but what you can do to become a more comfortable and effective newcomer. With practice, anyone can get better at being new. Strategies, tools, and exercises help you:
Confidently introduce yourself to strangers • Make great first impressions • Consistently remember names. • Quickly get up to speed in any situation • Boldly ask questions • Effortlessly start new relationships • Fearlessly perform new roles and tasks • Live life to its fullest, and find success wherever you go!
In What to Do When You're New, Keith Rollag distills the work of leading scientists and his own original research into a groundbreaking formula for success. You'll learn not only why we feel so uneasy in new situations, but what you can do to become a more comfortable and effective newcomer. With practice, anyone can get better at being new. Strategies, tools, and exercises help you:
Confidently introduce yourself to strangers • Make great first impressions • Consistently remember names. • Quickly get up to speed in any situation • Boldly ask questions • Effortlessly start new relationships • Fearlessly perform new roles and tasks • Live life to its fullest, and find success wherever you go!
Author
Keith Rollag
KEITH ROLLAG, PH.D., is an organizational researcher, management consultant, and Associate Professor of Management and Chair of the Management Division at Babson College. His work and ideas have been featured in The New York Times, Newsday, Investor's Business Daily, MIT Sloan Management Review, Wired News, Harvard Management Update, and other publications.
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5A Pop Self-Help Book. I think, this is written for popular audience. I've been new to many places, many situations. It usually takes 6 months - 18 months to be familiar.
Anxiety comes from uncertainty. I was expecting the author to give some real-content on sources of it, dealing with it. But it looks like one doesn't need to read this to figure it out. I remember once, I had to go to a business meeting for a corporation. I had no clue how to get to the meeting. I was new in town. I came off as nervous, anxious. While, it is natural for all new people. The one's that have lived in the same place for 10 years would brush you off.
But hey, try moving somewhere and figuring out how to get somewhere by your own self, without anyone guiding you.
If you're 8-16 years old, I would recommend this book to learn basic skills of reading.
Deus Vult,
Gottfried