No More "I Don't Know What to Say": Tips for Casual Conversation By Yoshiaki Hikita ● Casual conversation becomes easy if you create a "mechanism for conversations to continue on their own"! ● "Communication skills" and "having to tell interesting stories" are completely unnecessary! Often, advice for people who are not good at casual conversation includes things like: "It's good to be able to talk about this kind of thing!" or "First, let's improve your listening skills!" But when you try to put it into practice, don't you find yourself unsure of how to speak? That's because rigid methods like "You should do it this way" don't work well in real-life situations. Furthermore, even if you train your listening skills, you still won't know "how to start a conversation" or "how to keep the conversation going." This book was created for people who have these kinds of worries. The key is "creating a mechanism that makes casual conversation easy." For example, reactions. We'll go into more detail in the book, but there's a tip: "Pick up one thing from the other person's words and respond." Conversation masters don't necessarily have special topics. They just know how to "react." They pick up a word from the other person's words and react to it. Just by doing that, conversations surprisingly continue. In this way, there are "tips" for having good casual conversations. And you can build a "mechanism" to respond easily. It's okay, it's not that difficult. You'll be fine if you learn a few techniques in this book. In casual conversation, "communication skills" and "having to tell interesting stories" are completely unnecessary. In this book, so that even people who are not good at conversation can do it, ・Reaction techniques ・Tips for preparing topics ・Practice methods for picking up and connecting with the other person's words etc., will be introduced as concrete methods. Of course, there will also be techniques like "It will go well if you do this," but the foundation is "creating a mechanism for conversations to continue on their own." If you can build this mechanism, your casual conversations should become surprisingly easy. You're fine just the way you are. What you need is not "communication skills," but a "mechanism for easy conversation."