Synopses & Reviews
A few well-chosen words can elicit smiles, inspire happiness, transform moods, and turn a bad day into a good one. Philosopher William James once said, The deepest principle in human nature is the desire to be appreciated.” This is a fun, fabulous, reader-friendly book all about complimentsthe history of compliments, how to use them, best-loved compliments, and how to take them.
Synopsis
"I can live for two months on a good compliment."--Mark Twain "More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice."--Robert Smith Surtees
Let Chrisie Matheson show you how a few well-chosen words can elicit smiles, inspire happiness, transform moods, and turn a bad day into a good one.
Compliments are wonderful and powerful, but we don't nearly use them enough. They can strengthen relationships and family ties, nurture romantic love, and improve work situations. Here is a book that can make you better at compliments, and relationships of all kinds. Chapters include:
- Compliments 101
- The secret guide to compliments: listen up
- Working the compliment
- Random acts of compliments
- On insincerity
- Thanks, but no thanks: backhanded compliments
- And much more
Maybe you have given a lot of thought to compliments; more likely you have not. They are a tool that should be in your relationship toolbox. And this is the complete how-to guide.
About the Author
Christie Matheson is a writer whose work has appeared in Body & Soul, Glamour, Shape, Boston, San Francisco, Yoga Journal, and The Boston Globe Magazine. She is coauthor of The Confetti Cakes Cookbook, Vineyard Harvest: A Year of Good Food on Martha's Vineyard, and Tea Party and is the author and photographer of the outdoor travel book Discover Rhode Island. She lives in San Francisco, CA.