5 tricks for improving how you communicate:

• Here’s a good trick for dodging questions you don’t want to answer.

• There’s a right and a wrong way to brag.

• “I don’t mean to sound arrogant, but…” No, personal disclaimers don’t work. Name-dropping doesn’t work either.

• Swearing can reduce pain and make you more persuasive. Sarcasm can make you more creative.

• Gesturing makes you a better communicator and speaking quickly makes you more persuasive.

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