Types of Human Beings -- 1

Types of Human Beings -- 1

Calligrapher	a person with good handwriting
Egoist	a selfish person
Egotist	a conceited person
Deserter	a person who runs away from army
graphologist	a person who studies people's behavior by their handwriting
Altruist	an unselfish person
Quack	a person who deceives others by false appearance
Renegade	a person who runs away from a group
Jingoist	a person with a negative patriotism
Iconoclast	a person who breaks dogma
Maverick	a person who breaks conventions
Polyglot	an expert in many languages
Spitfire	a lady who gets irritated easily
Philanthropist	a lover of mankind
Misanthrope	a hater of mankind
Demagogue	A person who hurts the sentiments of masses
Pedagogue	a teacher
Cynic	a person who is unhappy with human nature
Stoic	a person not moved by pleasure and pain
Optimist	a person with positive attitude towards life
Pessimist	a person with gloomy attitude towards life
Connoisseur	an expert of food, drinks and art
Puritan	a person who is strict in religious matters
Flippant	a sportive person
Truant	a student who is habitually absent from school
Valedictorian	a bright student with a very high grade
Bellicose	a person who loves aggression
Apostate	a person who breaks religious principles
Anarchist	a law breaker
Quixotic	an impractical person
Parsimonious	a stingy person
Benevolent	a kind hearted person
Defector	a person who turns traitor to a cause
Skeptic	a person who doubts
Agnostic	a person who doubts the ultimate knowledge of God

12 TIPS Let people want you more.

12   TIPS

Let people want you more.

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A study at the Stanford University School of Business tracked a group of MBAs 10 years after they graduated.

The result?

Grade point averages had no bearing on their success –

but

their ability to converse with others did.

Being able to

connect with others through small talk can lead to big things.

The ability to connect with people through small talk

is

an acquired skill.


1. As you prepare for a function, come up with three things to talk about as well as four generic questions that will get others talking. If you've met the host before, try to remember things about her, such as her passion for a sport or a charity you're both involved in.

2. Be the first to say "hello." If you're not sure the other person will remember you, offer your name to ease the pressure. For example, "Charles Bartlett? Lynn Schmidt... good to see you again." Smile first and always shake hands when you meet someone.

3. Take your time during introductions. Make an extra effort to remember names and use them frequently.

4. Get the other person talking by leading with a common ground statement regarding the event or location and then asking a related open-ended question.

For example,

"Attendance looks higher than last year,

how long have you been coming to these conventions?"

You can also ask them about their trip in or how they know the host.

5. Stay focused on your conversational partner by actively listening and giving feedback. Maintain eye contact.

Never glance around the room while they are talking to you

6. Listen more than you talk.

7. Have something interesting to contribute.

Keeping abreast of current events and culture will provide you with great conversation builders, leading with "What do you think of...?"

Have you heard...?"

What is your take on...?"

Stay away from negative or controversial topics, and

refrain from long-winded stories or

give a lot of detail in casual conversation.

8. If there are people you especially want to meet,

one of the best ways to approach them is

to be introduced by someone they respect.

Ask a mutual friend to do the honors.

9. If someone hands you a business card, accept it as a gift.

Hold it in both hands and

take a moment to read what is written on it.

When you're done, put it away in a shirt pocket, purse or wallet

to show it is valued.

10. Watch your body language.

People who look ill at ease make others uncomfortable.

Act confident and comfortable,

even when you're not.

11. Before entering into a conversation that's already in progress,

observe and listen.

You don't want to squash the dynamics with

an unsuited or ill-timed remark.

12. Have a few exit lines ready,

so that you can both gracefully move on.

For example, "I need to check in with a client over there,"

"I skipped lunch today, so I need to visit the buffet," or

you can offer to refresh their drink.

When should you exit a conversation?

" your objective in all encounters should be

to make a good impression

and

leave people wanting you more.

To do that,: "Be bright. Be brief. Be gone."

SPEECH FUNCTIONS

SPEECH FUNCTIONS

for Sociolinguistics
Conveying Information and Expressing Social Relationships

1.  Expressive  (express speaker's feelings--I feel great today.)

2.  Directive  (get others to do things--Clean up your room.)

3.  Referential (provide information--The apples are on the table.)

4.  Metalinguistic (comments on language--Nouns can be mass or count.)

5.  Poetic (aesthetic language--poems, mottos, rhymes--A stitch in time saves nine.)

6.  Phatic (language for solidarity and empathy--Yo, bro. Put 'er there.)

SILENT CONVERSATION

SILENT  CONVERSATION

Two old men, friends of many years standing, would meet in each other's house every day.  They would sit in perfect silence for a couple of hours, then the visitor would get up and leave, without a word of farewell.
The inevitable happened and, in the natural course of things, one of the old men died. "You must miss him a lot, " said a condoler to the survivor.  "I do," replied the bereaved friend. "What I particularly miss are the long conversations we used to enjoy with each other."
The story suggests that there are forms of communication which don't need the use of words. But more than that, it conveys a suitably wordless message that silence has its own subtle yet resonant vocabulary, if only we choose to learn its language.
Silence is not an absence of sound; it is the presence of meaning. When Swami Vivekananda during his visit to the western world was introduced to the actress, Sarah Bernhardt, known for her beauty and her seductive laugh, someone asked him if he had heard the actress's famous laughter. "No," said Vivekananda. "But she heard my silence."  It is said that Bernhardt was profoundly influenced by her meeting with the eastern sage.
 Learning to hear silence takes patience. A music composer who was congratulated on the elegant way in which he arranged the notes in his compositions replied, "The notes more or less take care of themselves; the difficulty lies in getting the silent bits right."
In an age of increasing electronic chatter - 24x7 television, mobile phones, Twitter, SMSs -  "getting the silent bits right" is becoming more and more difficult. And, for that reason, more and more necessary.
We don't have to go become hermits in the Himalayas, or seek the solitude of desert wastes, to find silence. In fact, the trick is in finding silence in the midst of our everyday, workaday lives, in the middle of conversations with each other.
Is this business of finding silence just another way of saying that we should turn a deaf ear to what others are saying to us? Quite the contrary. The true meaning of the language of silence lies not in exclusion but in inclusion; not in cutting oneself off from people or from what is around us, but in finding a different, deeper level of communication.
In legal terms, silence means consent. If, for example, you saw someone about to commit a criminal act and didn't warn the victim or raise an alarm, a law court could take your silence to mean that you gave your consent to the act and as such were an accomplice to it. This is a negative interpretation of the consenting nature of silence.
A positive interpretation of silence would be that it affirms a unity of consciousness as distinct from a duality. A seeker asked a spiritual master: "How can I transcend into the All?" The master made no reply. Every day, the seeker would ask the same question, and every day the master would maintain his silence.
Exasperated, the seeker finally asked the master, "What's the matter? Why don't you reply to my question that I've been asking every day?" The master said, "I have been replying to your question every day. But you talk so much that you don't hear my reply."
The seeker understood that the master's reply to his question was silence. Because silence provided the bridge across the chasm of duality caused by the use of two words: 'I' and 'All'. By seeking to become one with the cosmos, the spoken 'I' was separating itself from a wordless union which already existed, and which could only be realised when words like 'I' and 'All' were surrendered into silence.
"Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent," said Wittgenstein. This silence beyond words that the Austrian philosopher referred to has been given different names on different signposts set up by spiritual masters to guide seekers. One of these synonyms for silence is meditation, another is prayer.
You don't need to go to an ashram  or a cave in the wilderness to meditate. You don't have to go to a shrine to pray. You can do either in your home, or your place of work during a spare moment. Perhaps, best of all, like the two friends in the story, you can do either of them when deep in silent conversation with someone else who is you by another name, just as you are the someone else by another name. And both are one in silence.