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The bookshelvesare overflowing with printed words for effective talking. Radio jockey Shamshir Rai Luthra adds yet another. It is different, he promises. Is he right? Read on with SANGEETA BAROOAH PISHAROTY to find out... .
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YOU HAVE heard him on "Dus Se Gyarah" on All India Radio's FM Channel. You have seen him on Star Plus every other morning. Now you get a chance to read him. Not about him for a change but actually what this highly garrulous radio jockey-turned writer has to say about personality development, beginning with an ability to communicate. Not quite a throwback to "How To Win Over People", his all-new, all-slim, "Talk To Win" promises to make a celebrity out of mere mortals. Why not? Shamshir Rai Luthra has himself come through in recent years purely on the basis of his gift of gab.
Shamshir tells you that you are the person he thought of before penning down his "simple techniques" in "Talk to Win."
"Do not worry but become a celebrity! For, a celebrity is the one who celebrates life," says the man who cannot stop talking on the air. And now probably could not resist the temptation of putting it all down on paper. Enlisting ways promising to put you at ease and help you speak with confidence in his book, he claims it to be "a Bible" for those in need of super confidence.
"You have to read the preface of my book to know what provoked me to write such a book. We all often get to meet kids who would get nervous in pronouncing even their names. I say, we should have training sessions from that level to inject confidence among our youth," says Shamshir.
Known for his antics on radio shows, glib talker Shamshir blames our education system which gives more thrust on the written than spoken words. "Often we encounter people who are not good talkers but write well. They are the direct victims of our education system." A product of the same education system, Shamshir's childhood fascination for radio and aping good presenters helped him enhance his communication skills.
The book, with interesting illustrations by well-known cartoonist Sudhir Tailang to go with the author's words, tells you to first communicate well with you to effectively do so with others. Stressing improvsation, the 139-page book -- published by Wisdom Tree -- is all adulation for the traditional art of story-telling. He prescribes you various exercises, physical and mental, to get out of the speaking difficulty mode, concentrate on personality development to become a wholesome personality. "After all, effective communication is today's mantra for success, not only at workplace but also in personal equations", the author says.
"I tell my publishers that they have opened a fixed deposit with my book. For, though there are books on enhancing communication skills, there is something different in my book. It will sell and sell," boasts the author, never quite known to cultivate a trace of modesty. All that narcissism is fine if you are ready to digest his `Words of Wisdom' pasted on every page. Some of them go like this: There is a great value in disaster. All our mistakes are burnt down; Average human being utilises just 10 per cent of his total mental capacity and a genius makes use of only 15 per cent; Practise having positive thoughts and beliefs until they become a habit and a part of your life... .do we need him to tell us all that?
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