Comments on: 10 Things I Learned About Connection from President Bill Clinton

By: How Could You Not Know My Name?! | Yeah Dave

How Could You Not Know My Name?! | Yeah Dave — Wed, 18 May 2011 20:46:36 +0000

[...] It’s not just names. One former White House intern, Phil Gerbyshak, shared some of Clinton’s other tricks for masterful communication. As excerpted from Gerbyshak’s blog: [...]

By: Phil Gerbyshak

Phil Gerbyshak — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 13:24:01 +0000

Amazing stuff Marshall. Thanks for following your gut and finding me!

Warmest regards today and every day!

By: Marshall Wayne

Marshall Wayne — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 10:49:33 +0000

Phil, thank you for posting such a wonderful post. I have just been reading a post on Tim Ferris’s blog called, “How It Works: Clinton’s “Reality Distortion Field” Charisma”, which led me to a book called, “The Power of Eye Contact” that starts off with stories of Bill Clinton’s legendary use of eye contact.

That led me to Googling, “Bill Clinton eye contact”, which led me to this post.

I’m a big fan of the synchronistic journeys we can find ourselves on with the internet. I sure am happy I found this post.

By: Phil Gerbyshak

Phil Gerbyshak — Mon, 10 May 2010 01:47:06 +0000

I think you’re right Bill. The harder something is, the more effective it is. Remembering names is definitely a skill. I’ll be posting an article on how I do this later this week.

And looking deeply into someone’s eyes takes practice, but it totally works.

Great meeting you at SOBCon! Hope to see you again soon!

By: Bill Rice

Bill Rice — Sat, 08 May 2010 11:13:45 +0000

Phil,

Great excerpt. I have seen President Clinton only once in person and it was only a speech (no direct interaction) and even on stage with the moderator you could see a few of these approaches.

I think of all these I try really hard to work on the remembering names and “deep eye contact.” I think these are the two hardest, but most effective. I’m sure there is a correlation.

The other tip I want to work on more is opening with a story. Good storytellers are always great networkers. It makes it so much easier to open a conversation. Of course, that too takes practice.

Thanks for sharing this great excerpt with us Phil.

By: Moving From Me To We.com » Blog Archive » The Velcro Effect of Praise and Insults

Thu, 06 May 2010 18:25:55 +0000

[...] crowd as I described in a comment here. Bill Clinton, at his best, is a master at giving praise as Sean Stephenson suggests, dubbing his approach “the carwash [...]

By: mmakrenos

mmakrenos — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:42:40 +0000

This was all very interesting~~how may I communicate w/President Clinton?

By: Ziona Etzion

Ziona Etzion — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 11:33:38 +0000

I like this post.

Short and simple.

By: carrystone

carrystone — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 02:30:20 +0000

phil
sure would too. all he ever said was hey girl good to see you again, every encounter never Hi Carry

By: Phil Gerbyshak

Phil Gerbyshak — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 01:44:43 +0000

Wow, that’s really interesting. Seems to fly in the face of this article. I’d be curious why that happened.