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The Like Switch

By: Jack Schafer PhD, Ph.D. Marvin Karlins Ph.D.
Narrated by: George Newbern
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From a former FBI Special Agent specializing in behavior analysis and recruiting spies comes a handbook filled with his proven strategies on how to instantly read people and influence how they perceive you, so you can easily turn on the like switch.

The Like Switch is packed with all the tools you need for turning strangers into friends, whether you are on a sales call, a first date, or a job interview. As a Special Agent for the FBI's National Security Division's Behavioral Analysis Program, Dr. Jack Schafer developed dynamic and breakthrough strategies for profiling terrorists and detecting deception. Now, Dr. Schafer has evolved his proven-on-the-battlefield tactics for the day-to-day, but no less critical battle of getting people to like you.

In The Like Switch, he presents these techniques for how you can influence, attract, and win people over. Learn how to think and react like your favorite TV investigators from Criminal Minds or CSI as Dr. Schafer shows you how to improve your LQ (Likeability Quotient), "spot the lie" both in person and online, master nonverbal cues that influence how people perceive you, and turn up or turn down the intensity of a relationship.

Dr. Schafer cracks the code on making great first impressions, building lasting relationships, and understanding others' behavior to learn what they really think about you. With tips and techniques that hold the key to taking control of your communications, interactions, and relationships, The Like Switch shows you how to read others and get people to like you for a moment or a lifetime.

©2015 John Schafer, Ph.D. and Marvin Karlins, Ph.D. All rights reserved.; 2015 Simon & Schuster, Inc. All rights reserved.

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Absolutely fantastic!

Take the time to absorb the information. You will improve your life and communication skills. Some of the techniques are used in the modern intelligence world. This book takes interrogation techniques of gathering information and empowers you to really understand others better. Great book!

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The Like Switch was great! This book is full of advice to help anyone build or improve relationships that may have been stressed in the past or are just getting started. Learning these foundational aspects of relationships is sure to get many people in your life to "Like" you even more. Lots of laughs and very entertaining......never wanted to stop listening once I started this audio......very well done!

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just buy it

This is an xceptional companion to how to win friends and influence people by Carnegie

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Excellent, entertaining, and Insightful

My only complaint would be a lack of greater detail that could put the techniques described into practical application. Albeit, such detail would be better left to a more prescriptive and droll book. Nonetheless, I've successfully used the techniques described with surprisingly positive reception. I look forward to reading it again in the future.

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Good Book with extent of exageration

The author has introduced and expanded on a number of topics useful in a day to day life. However, each chapter or section contain an up beat expectations promising superior results which might not be true all the time.

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Value for money

This book is a complete value for money. There are lots of informative techniques for effective communication.

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Great Book

Dealing with people and the methods to use
are exteemly useful. A very entertaining and useful book. I highly recommend.

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great book

I really enjoyed this book. I learned a lot of insightful things. I would recommend it to anyone.

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Good book but no included pdf was really annoying

They should include the accompanying pdf because your really lost without it. Audible please fix this problem. Without the pdf it's difficult to follow along

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very valuable

I liked it. it could be shorter. the end of the book was too stretched out. but the tips the author gives are very valuable. I recommend!

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