Topic-specific radio talk shows with commentaries, interviews and debates can now be heard at a time and place of listener's choosing. Consider benefit of educational tutorials and foreign language instruction; lessons could be listened to during a work commute. Supplementary class lectures, step by step tutorials or walking guides are all possible using podcasting. An unlimited collection of books read aloud for elderly or visually-impaired listeners only scratch surface of what is possible in future of podcasting.

The fate of podcasting is in hands of subscribers. The subscriber can easily delete podcast feeds that do not satisfy their needs with single tap of a button. Ultimately, subscriber maintains control and determines what podcasts are deemed successful. This intrinsically builds in a quality control level and will ensure that more innovative instructional and interesting podcast feeds survive.

The technology is fresh and, like Internet, is opening doors to entrepreneurs. As podcasting evolves, users will find more creative kinds of audio content to deliver. The low barrier to entry has forced this new medium to forefront, as businesses and individuals have really little to lose in adding podcasting as a communication channel.

What radical transformation, then, would it take to reshape a shy person into an extroverted, socially adept one? Where can you learn to meet and greet any and all encounters skillfully and with confidence?

First, realize that advanced language skills are but subtle elaborations or enhancement of what we already know and do, yet of a somewhat higher order. Additional examples include listening, picking up on nonverbal cues, and having a sense of other individual's personal space. Finally, high-arts: being able to start a conversation with a total stranger, knowing when to wait and when to act.

IT IS OUR NATURE as human beings to seek affiliation, to make friends. But sometimes it can be hard for a person to reach out and create conversation. Most people want to like, want to love, want to connect, but they are afraid. Things get in way of their innate desire; things like FEAR OF REJECTION or uncertainty about WHAT TO SAY FIRST.

The start of a great relationships begins with "a great opening line." It is knowing what to say first and how to sustain conversation that gets attention and BUILDS CONFIDENCE.

TRUE AND LASTING PERSONAL CONFIDENCE flows from knowledge and certainty that you will function skillfully and convincingly while at ease, in all social or business encounters. What helps shapes your fate is your ability to stand your ground in any confrontation - knowledge that you will always prevail.

Self-confidence will also grow as you depend less on fortuitous happenstance, on wishing and hoping - and realize that you can make your choices and actions a consequence of clarity of purpose. You will become a stronger person as you see yourself acquiring and applying new language skills.

Total confidence is primarily rooted in possessing verbal skills of capturing control of conversations and confrontations. It is simply a matter of knowing what to say and exactly how to say it to get desired results. This is what Oscar Bruce publications will put into your life.

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