how to become more talkative in your life ?

India
May 19, 2012 1:41am CST
Dear all, how to become more talkative in the life? Do you think its very important to be more talkative to attract people and make friends ? I am not much talkative in nature and sometime i just do not know what to say or how to respond with some extra pleasing words. This seems like becoming a problem for me and i want to improve on it. what should be done to get rid of such behaviour ?
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• Australia
19 May 12
Personally I would start by complimenting someone on something, like a piece of clothing or their bag. I think it's easier to make friends in a work or school situation, one where you see them everyday. You can start with something you know you both has in common, like what your working on or studying. Also if there are social situations in a workplace eg a birthday, you can introduce yourself and say happy birthday. Then moving onto social situations outside the work place, maybe you could invite a bunch of people out so something informal, like a movie or ten pin bowling etc. Also maybe you could buy a book on how to make friends. Years ago my mum bought me this book called "How to Start a Conversation and Make Friends" by Don Gabor. I don't use it much but it does have pretty good advice. It basically teaches you how to start conversation, how to continue your conversations with wit and charm, how to end your conversations with a great impression etc. I don't know if this helps, but I hope you succeed in making more friends and good friends. :) I think it is important to a certain extent to be more talkative to attract people and make friends. The thing with me is that I'm usually shy when talking in person to a stranger, but online I go crazy. As long as you know how to communicate with people, not just with talking but also with body language, I think you will be okay.
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• India
19 May 12
Agreed with you, well yes on occasions like birthday celebration, i tried maximum from my side to go and wish instead of the fact that i am not much talkative... many use to prefer saying "reserved nature" for such behavior. I am not exactly reserved in nature, i enjoy communicating on topics i love most but as same is not true with others a kind of communication gap automatically gets generated. i think the one who is less talkative is obviously a shy person too as i am.
• Philippines
20 May 12
@Annie Topaz, what you said is a really good advice. Complementing people will help you gain friends (just make sure you compliment sincerely). Knowing what your common interests are is also a good way to start you talking. I might check the book How to Start a Conversation and Make Friends by Don Gabor, suddenly I'm interested!
@squallming (1775)
• Malaysia
20 May 12
Mate, i believe you put it the wrong way. It is not how to make you more talkative, but how to make you a charismatic person. In order to increase your charisma, you need to first improve on your look. Wearing neat and be hygienic would make you more approachable. Then, you have to do some reading and watching on magazines, tv shows, documentaries on various topics, and of course watch the mews. These will ensure that you have relevant things to say in a conversation. You would also need to listen to others before expecting others to listen to what you have to say^^
• Philippines
20 May 12
hi squallming, I like the idea of improving your look. I believe you are right. Personally, I am attracted to people who are very neat looking. It is indeed a charisma to be always presentable.
• Philippines
17 Sep 12
Don't stress about it too much. I know a lot of talkative people who are actually boring to be with. Sometimes, people who are not talkative are better as when they speak, they usually speak things that matter whereas some talkative people talk too much about irrelevant things and things we usually don't really care about. I am just like you. I wanted to be talkative too. But now I learned and I have realized being just talkative is not enough to attract people. WHAT you talk about matters, not HOW MUCH you talk.
@indahfth (11161)
• Indonesia
3 Aug 12
We should not be talkative to get friends. Most importantly in make friends, we must respect each other, and do not have bad intentions. That way, you will easily make friends. Sometimes, too talkative, it will make you, hard to find friends. Most importantly, we can speak well, and polite.
• Indonesia
19 May 12
To be said the truth, I'm not talkative either. I always say what I have in my mind and my friends said that eventough I rarely speak, but when I open my mouth, my words will slice the topic, no matter how complicated that topic is. If I don't know what to say or how to convey my though with some pleasing words, I'll just silent, or at least say "no comment", "I don't understand", or maybe "I don't know what to say".
• India
19 May 12
All that you said holds exactly same in my case too. Due to this reason i observe that friends hardy pay attention or acknowledge your presence. Any such observation from your side ?
@sanofer (525)
• India
19 May 12
being talkative does not mean that you can attract many people. the way how you speak and the content you are speaking about matters a lot. some people don't like people who speaks a lot unnecessarily. so don't worry that you are not a talkative person. try to gather some interesting and funny news and share it with your friends. share something which will make others to listen to you. instead of speaking so much,speak something which is necessary for that time. this will helps you to gain good friends.
• India
19 May 12
Thank you for motivating and supporting me on that. I really wish to improve on that as its required now. In professional world i feel there is hardly any place for people like me. That is why sometimes i found myself a bit downside.
@Cutie18f (9551)
• Philippines
19 May 12
Well, you can learn it. Practice little by little. Start talking with a close friend, then go to small groups, then to bigger groups. You don't have to be very talkative. Just be courteous and just make sense. You have to equip yourself by always reading so you will have something to say.
@katie0 (5203)
• Japan
31 May 12
I think that people that are naturally like this can call attention, can have people coming towards them because they are outgoing, now if we need to try and change our ways...dear I don't think so, actually never. Just for example if we stop in one point in life and realize: 'I'm such a liar, I need to be more honest', like a flaw, then we actually should change. Now it's in our nature to be talkative or more mysteriously quiet. I've seen quiet people having a lot of friends and realize that was not the secret, attracting people has more to do with the personal magnetism and I think that comes from we feeling like a good company, attractive and actually wanting people hanging around. I can't have too many people around, I just don't like or can't follow many conversations. When going out with a friend for example I love to reserve one weekend to this friend, just me and her/him, the other to another friend and talk serious and privately.
• India
19 May 12
I don't think talking more is very important to attract people to make friends. The only thing you need is you need a good behavior with good attitude. This will make friends to attract you. Talking to your friends is much important to maintain relation but becoming talkative becomes a reason to break the friendship.
20 May 12
I'm not too active in talking, and that's not a big problem for me. Because I also talkactive when I talk to my family, or my best friend, or to friends whom have the same interest.