
Master listening by distinguishing listening from hearing and applying different listening skills to tailor your communication style to any context; complete a class project to practice daily life communication.
The lecture distinguishes hearing from listening, showing that hearing is physical while listening requires a present mind; it highlights fake listening and the impact of mental presence on understanding.
Practice listening to exercise the mind and broaden your perspective, making you a better speaker, more focused, and more likable as you ensure others feel heard.
Explore two types of listening: sponge listening and trampoline listening, and learn when to apply each in real conversations.
Practice sponge listening, a passive style that mainly absorbs information, useful when being a shoulder to cry on and when circumstance calls for attentive, non-participatory listening.
Practice trampoline listening by asking questions, paraphrasing points, and contributing your own statements to stay engaged and show presence in conversations.
Explore two listening styles—sponge and trampoline—and adjust your approach to context, switching between styles as needed to be more charismatic and level up your listening skills.
Learn how listening differs from hearing and its benefits, including clearer speaking, better concentration, and increased charisma, then adapt from sponge (passive) to trampoline (active) listening across contexts.
Analyze three interactions to identify listening types, including sponge and trampoline listening, describe the context, and post a reflective paragraph in the class project to share your listener profile.
discover impromptu speaking for beginners, learn three frameworks to boost public speaking, communication clarity, and confidence, and practice with a real-time project to enhance interview and content creation skills.
Discover impromptu speaking as delivering ideas without preparation or notes. Contrast it with prepped talks; learn to unlearn and strengthen your impromptu muscle for public speaking, interviews, table topics.
Apply impromptu speaking skills to everyday life, ease public speaking anxiety, excel in interviews, and sustain ideas for your podcast or channel by thinking on your feet and recalibrating.
Discover three impromptu speaking frameworks and learn to pick the one that resonates with you, practice it, and master it before exploring another framework.
Apply the basketball method to impromptu speaking by aligning three elements: player, hoop, and ball, and craft short talks with a precise hoop, or longer talks with a broader hoop.
Apply the string and pearls method to impromptu speaking by aligning a central theme with quick, essential pearls of points for a polished, spontaneous speech.
Master the pink fish method for impromptu speaking by guiding thoughts along a river of dots and spotting valuable pink fish tied to personal topics.
Recap the art of impromptu speaking, presenting without preparation, and master three frameworks—the basketball method, the string and pearls, and the pink fish—to think on your feet.
Select one framework—basketball method, string and pearls, or pink fish—and deliver a 1–3 minute impromptu talk, then post the recording in the class project for feedback.
Learn the fundamentals of negotiating to turn ideas into reality by communicating with different groups and exchanging value, mastering the true definition and mindset of negotiation for your final project.
Reframe negotiation as creating win-win deals that let multiple people win, not a zero-sum bargain. Embrace assertiveness over aggression, explain the truth politely, and expand thinking to craft collaborative outcomes.
Explore why negotiation matters in daily life by forging win-win deals, tapping human drive for advancement, and applying five one-on-one negotiation benefits to progress in leadership or careers.
Discover a three-win approach in communication: let the other person win first, then win yourself, and learn why the other person is winning before us.
Avoid rushing to win; make the other party aware you allowed them to win to foster benefit, reveal character, and use long-term deal to align incentives with high integrity partners.
Set the right timeframes to negotiate more smoothly. Use micro wins to keep the other party engaged, especially in high-stakes scenarios like author-narrator deals.
Accept failure as a natural part of negotiation and learn from every no, turning it into data for future win-win deals.
Learn a win-win negotiation approach treated as a scientific process. Let the other party win first to build awareness, use timeframes, and accept failure as data to improve future deals.
Learn to view life as a negotiation by prioritizing adding value to others first, managing ego, and embracing a win-win mindset as a daily lifestyle.
Lead the final project through a role-playing negotiation with a trusted person, crafting a tough scenario to win the car for prom, and post your win-win report.
Demystify public speaking, control speech anxiety, and build repeatable tools to create and deliver clear, confident speeches. Apply these skills to provide practical value in the marketplace.
Reframe public speaking as a lifestyle, recognizing daily conversations, camera presentations, and Zoom talks as forms of public speaking to mitigate speech anxiety.
Understand why speech anxiety arises—rarely practicing public speaking and fear of eyes on you—then reframe it as speech excitement to change perception and boost confidence.
Develop your speech by embracing imperfection first, then gradually perfecting it by building it in blocks and connecting them during practice. Next, learn to craft the middle, opener, and closure.
Apply the tree method to structure a speech, with a trunk as the main point, branches as supporting points, and leaves as details, all tied to a clear one-line purpose.
Learn to captivate your audience with a strong opener that grabs attention and paints the journey, then close by summarizing the path and offering an optional call to action.
Practice speech 1 invites you to experiment with connecting the opener to the closer using trunk, branches, and leaves as building blocks, trying different energy to refine a cohesive speech.
Practice your speech on camera five times to perfection, watch tapes to fix body language quirks, and let it settle in so you present without notes and stay present.
Rest one to two days before your speech, prepare your clothes, and use open body language with a smile, speaking to three audience members—left, middle, and right.
Create a speech using a tree framework with a big point, branches, leaves, an opener, a closer, record multiple takes, and post the final video in the class project.
Master speed reading by learning its why, understand words to make meaningful changes, and apply a practical system to strengthen your speed reading skills for professional clarity and confidence.
Explore how speed reading pairs rapid reading with maximum retention, debunking the idea that it’s only about speed. Learn to read fast while retaining more, not less.
Identify a personal purpose for speed reading to turn reading time into a valuable asset and fuel curiosity, as books become puzzle pieces guiding your learning.
Identify the subjects that spark your curiosity and find books related to those topics, so the right book at the right time guides your speed reading.
Set clear reading targets by dividing a book into five parts and tracking your pace across weekdays and weekends to steadily speed up with more specific goals.
Practice drives improvement in communication skills and speed reading; recognize inadequacies, focus on understanding first, and use the five parts reading system to estimate reading time and build mastery.
Leverage book summaries, explore the 'about the book' section, and read reviews to warm up your mind and set expectations, making it easier to absorb the book's knowledge.
Explore speed reading apps to train your eyes and boost comprehension, compare three options for a user interface that fits you, track progress, and treat speed reading as a game.
Complete the final project by dividing a book into five parts and reading on weekdays, then write a reflective paragraph on pace and future plans; explore more content at moneytalks.com.
Master a beginner's guide to time management to maximize daily output, productivity, and happiness by organizing time and reducing clutter. Develop communication skills that convey ideas with clarity and confidence.
Automate your busy daily tasks to reduce conscious effort and shift repetitive actions toward subconscious routines, enabling human automation and revealing core leverage points for time management.
Clarify what you are trying to improve and set at least one measurable goal to track progress. Without a clear aim, tactics and tools overwhelm you and you quit.
Shift time management from daily tasks to a macro view by planning year or month first, then zoom into micro details. See the full elephant before examining the trunk.
Identify a monthly narrative to guide to-do lists for book creation, writing, and editing. Focus on idea creation, research, and market checks to launch a book.
Craft monthly narratives and daily to-do lists to move an idea from concept to market, using keyword research and audience pain points.
Refine formula by treating time management as human automation, prioritizing four irreplaceable daily tasks: consume, create, market, and meditate. Continuously experiment and refine to strengthen willpower and automate your workflow.
Reframe routines as rituals to engage the subconscious mind and improve time management. Focus on four daily tasks: consume, create, market, meditate, and continually experiment to evolve your rituals.
Compress time management ideas by automating daily tasks into rituals, craft a one-line monthly narrative to guide a to-do list, and iterate with experimentation and learning.
Open a Microsoft document, state your current improvement goal, and craft a monthly narrative with a one-day to-do list, then upload the file to the class project.
Improve confidence under pressure by focusing on wardrobe and fashion basics; learn micro-details and complete a final project to upgrade your wardrobe.
Discover how fashion shapes audience perception and confidence in public speaking, and how dressing well can give you an edge in communication and delivery.
Identify the right moments to be fashionable, treat fashion as an accessory, and avoid overdoing it while integrating style into key life events, such as weddings and speeches.
Know your body type by assessing garment fit across changing physiques, and make strategic fashion decisions to ensure your shirt fits at this life stage.
Think evergreen by buying wardrobe pieces you can wear for 30 years or more, reducing trend chasing and mental clutter while staying true to your personal style.
Embrace quality over quantity in your wardrobe to adopt the opportunity cost wardrobe style, using durable pieces that withstand washing and last longer to save money.
Focus on micro details like shoes, belt, and ironing to shine in high-pressure moments like a speech, delivering a cohesive and respected look.
Experiment mindfully with new ideas, from bow ties to outfits, and use inspiration from Pinterest, Google Images, and fashion pages to discover what you like.
Dress for a high pressure moment and evaluate how your attire influences emotion and confidence. Create and post a final project report detailing your outfit, emotional state, and physical state.
Explore conflict management and emotional intelligence to de-escalate disagreements, show respect to the opposing party, and logically break down your points in this beginner course by Armani Talks.
Explore how conflict management prevents emotions from erupting, using analogies of the calm ocean and bubbling anger to recognize early signs and keep disputes under control.
Master how anger narrows the mind and reduces options, and apply conflict management by keeping sight of everyone's perspective to resolve disagreements with respect.
Pause, acknowledge others' perspectives, and listen to what they see during conflicts; choose respectful understanding over ego, as both parties may be right.
Actively listen to understand others' perspectives in conflicts, differentiating active listening from hearing, paraphrase what they say, ask questions, and mix in sponge mode when needed.
Learn to state your points with respect, listen actively, pause when others are angry, give them distance, and calmly lay out logical reasons to reduce conflict.
Lead towards a resolution by moving beyond disagreement and closing the loop with a shared solution. Confirm calmness from both sides after active listening and clear points.
Use a gentle de-escalation approach by addressing the person by name to calm them gradually, instead of saying calm down, which can inflame anger.
In the final project, pair up to role-play a believable conflict, apply emotional intelligence and active listening to understand the other perspective, paraphrase, craft a resolution, and submit a report.
Discover why eye contact matters in social skills for beginners, learn what proper eye contact looks like, and practice it in one-on-one and scaled interactions to boost rapport.
Explore why eye contact feels hard due to the spotlight effect and illusion of transparency, and learn concepts to reduce self-consciousness in conversations.
Eye contact combines looking with taking breaks, reflecting that speaking equals speaking plus silence. Develop a confident, doer attitude to avoid creepiness and improve communication.
Develop confident one-on-one eye contact with a micro-approach, extending gaze from three to five seconds, incorporating gentle squint and a smile to ease the spotlight and boost comfort.
Segment the audience into left, middle, and right, and lock and hold on the most engaged members. This eye contact strategy applies to group conversations and public speaking.
Master adaptive eye contact on a case-by-case basis to match the listener, take eye breaks when needed, stay anchored in the moment, and boost engagement and charisma.
Trust your gut when eye contact with certain people feels off, and learn from Rahul’s badmouthing signals to build future judgment through body language cues.
Complete the final project by conducting a live in-person conversation, analyzing personality, adjusting eye contact, and detailing a post-interaction report to build social awareness.
Explore the value of humor, learn how to start being funny, and understand why humor is subjective in this beginner comedy course within the communication skills starter pack.
Humor is the ability to make someone laugh and remains subjective. Simple moments—like a baby laughing when tearing paper in a popular video—can trigger laughter and connect people.
Set the intent to be funny by entering social interactions with the goal of making others laugh, which loosens you and invites humor.
Humor evolves from deliberate effort to autopilot through training, practice, and rock bottom moments, as fighters and comedians turn struggle into a natural, ingrained part of your personality.
Learn how a joke acts as a pattern interrupt to shift mood, spark energy, and generate laughter by turning dark moments into a relatable lesson.
Test material in clubs, adapt to audience reactions, and stay enthusiastic, because humor is highly subjective and jokes land differently with different crowds.
Watch comedians to study timing, joke effectiveness, and delivery; observe mannerisms, body language, micro-expressions, story building, and haymakers to speed up your humor development.
Learn to engage the audience with smiling, expressive body language, and well-timed pauses; talk to the eyes as well as the ears to make the audience laugh.
For the final project, craft and deliver a joke in your chosen medium—video, conversation, or text—and write a final report reflecting on setting the intent to make someone laugh.
Are you currently struggling to articulate your ideas with clarity and confidence?
Internally, the thoughts make sense. However, whenever you try to communicate, that's when there is resistance.
This is a common problem faced by professionals & entrepreneurs. The inability to communicate causes opportunities to be missed.
Considering we are living in the information age, this is the era to collaborate & share your ideas with clarity & confidence.
Luckily, communication skills can be learned!
Hard skills are about learning how to use instruments.
Soft skills are about learning how to become an instrument.
In the Soft Skills Starter Pack, you will get a collection of classes that will help you improve the intangibles so you can process information faster, think on your feet & communicate with power.
The classes included are:
Impromptu Speaking Class:
In this class, you will learn the importance of thinking on your feet. The world moves too fast to always be planning what you are going to say. The art of impromptu speaking has frameworks that you can follow to a science. Learn the frameworks, practice & deliver impromptu talks with ease. The ability to think on your feet makes it easier to communicate in conversations, job interviews & business meetings.
Listening Skills Class:
Speaking is only one part of the game. What is equally, if not more important, is listening skills. Great listeners are great speakers. By listening with intent, you will be able to learn crucial information faster & speak with more clarity. In this class, you will learn the difference between hearing vs listening, trampoline vs sponge listening & how to practice understanding others!
Negotiation Skills Class:
It's crucial to learn how to collaborate with others. Negotiation does not have to be a situation where someone else has to lose for you to win. Instead, both parties can win! The purpose of this class is to teach you how to create win-win relationships. By negotiating properly, you build social assets faster & get what you want. Improve lives & add abundance with each transaction.
Public Speaking Class:
The ability to speak in public is leverage. You can get your ideas heard at scale. However, the fear of public speaking is holding people back. Speech anxiety is the #1 fear in the world ranking ahead of death. The reason for this fear is that we are never taught how to speak in front of others. In this class, you will learn how to manage speech anxiety, structure a speech & deliver with confidence!
Speed Reading Class:
Learning is a valuable trait for gifted communicators. One efficient way to learn is by reading. Time is money. Reading faster while maintaining comprehension is a skill set that we can exercise our minds into. In this beginner's class into speed reading, you will learn how to find the right books for you, read efficiently & retain more information.
Time Management Class:
Leaders with great soft skills need to manage their time efficiently. Naturally, humans are awful time managers. Without a system, a human is bound to procrastinate. In this class, you will learn basic fundamentals of how to plan your day so you are moving forward in your goals and leveling up. Win the days, win the months and win the years.
Fashion Skills Class:
A lot of people don’t take fashion seriously. For them, it’s an afterthought. But here’s a thing... fashion is not only about artistic expression, fashion has a ton of practical value. By dressing sharper, you will feel more confident, enhance likability, build persuasion skills and more. In this beginner's class on fashion, you will learn why fashion is important, thinking evergreen when choosing a wardrobe, the power of experimenting & where to draw inspiration from.
Conflict Management Class:
Not everyone you talk to will be nice. A lot of them will be rude. At times, you may be feeling angry as well. 2 people with anger can intensify really quickly. Now imagine if more people are thrown into the mix! You get my point. Knowing how to manage conflict shows signs of emotional intelligence. In this class, you will learn what is conflict management, how to respect the other party, see different angles, listen actively, contribute logic of your own, and gear the interaction toward a resolution.
Eye Contact Class:
Are you someone who struggles with eye contact? If so, you are not alone. Plenty of people struggle with eye contact. One reason someone struggles with eye contact is that they don't really know what is it. They are operating with the incorrect definition. And due to the incorrect definition, their body language is off. In this beginner’s class, you will learn the correct definition of eye contact, the illusion of transparency, and the spotlight effect, how to hold eye contact in a 1 on 1 interaction, how to hold eye contact in groups and during public speaking, and spotting ill intent.
Comedy Class:
If a picture is worth a 1000 words, then humor is worth a lot more than that. When you make someone laugh, it doesn’t matter what you say next. They are paying attention. But you may find humor to be difficult. At the moment, you feel stiff, overly logical, and are facts-driven. Humor seems like a foreign concept. If that sounds like you, then this beginner’s class on comedy is for you! In this beginner’s class on how to be funnier, you will learn what is humor, setting the intent to be funny, how to tell a joke, and the importance of smiling.
Offline Networking Class:
Networking is key to leveling up in life. But networking means different things to different people. Without a solid grasp of what networking is, it's hard to connect with others. This class is meant to demystify the process of networking so you can understand how to connect with others and rise in your field. Since this is a beginner’s class, you don’t need any prior understanding in networking to understand the material. In this class, you will learn the purpose of networking, online and offline networking, farming and hunting mentality, and how to connect better with others.
Online Networking Class:
This class breaks down how to network online. The internet can be used as a tool. The internet can be used to waste a lot of time. Which boat do you fall into? It’s easy to waste time networking with people that you have no business networking with.
Instead, build clarity, then execute. In this class, you will learn why networking online is smart, spotting who to network with, how to NOT network, how to make yourself know, effective ways to deepen the bond, and the value of a mastermind.
Meditation Class:
Either you control the mind or the mind controls you. Meditation is the act of taking the mind to the gym so you become the master. In recent ages, meditation has become too complex with too many teachings. In this class, you will learn the bare fundamentals in order to organize the monkey mind so you can think clearly. The byproduct of thinking clearly is speaking clearly.
Dominate Job Interview Class:
A job interview can be a nerve-wracking process. Especially if you need the job a lot. This is where clarity will reduce a lot of the nerves. Rather than driving with a blurry windshield. Turn the windshield wipers on. In this beginner’s class on dominating a job interview, you will learn the basics. You will learn how to have an abundance mindset with job interviews, answer the question: “Tell me about yourself," share relevant skills to increase your perceived value, and even if you don’t have the relevant skills, you’ll learn how to leverage soft skills to your favor.
Personal Branding Class:
The tools are limitless. Do want to market yourself? If so, then you just need to begin. But there are too many options. One tool after the next is making you lose sight of the bigger picture. That’s what this class is for. We are going to take the complexity out of personal branding and make it simple. With simplicity, we ensure consistency! In this beginner’s class on personal branding, you will learn what is personal branding, why you should think in themes, not niches, the mindset to keep sharpening your craft & building strategic alliances.
How to Make Small Talk Class:
Small talk feels awkward and uncomfortable. However, small talk is a needed component of social skills and building connections with others. No matter where you are from, strangers exist. Rather than viewing them as 'strangers', view them as 'social opportunities.' These social opportunities will allow you to elevate in your field and make more meaningful connections.
In this beginner's class on small talk, you will learn what is small talk, how to create small talk with 2 simple moves, and how to cross combine these 2 moves to lead to complexity and charisma.
Build a Social Circle Class:
Building a social circle will make your life more fulfilling. But constructing a social circle in a suboptimal way will bring your life a lot of chaos, snakes, and deceit. In this class, you will learn why invest in a social circle in the first place, the difference between a friend and an acquaintance, the social filtration system, how often to follow up with others, & a lot of cool topics that will boost your social IQ.
Improve Speaking Voice Class:
Do you currently have a weak speaking voice? There is doubt in the air and others aren’t too sure if you even want to speak.
If that’s the case, then your issue can be resolved! Your speaking voice is your brand. With a powerful speaking voice, you show competence, build charm, build trust and rapport, and effectively communicate key messages with the world. In this class, you will learn how the voice works, different vocal exercises, and how to create your voice.
Attraction Marketing Class:
Content is energy. And the content you publish will attract a like-minded tribe. In this beginner’s class on attraction marketing, you will learn what is attraction marketing, the difference between traditional and new media, the long tail theory, network effect, and how to use data storytelling to publish content.
Body Language Class:
Why is it so important to know body language? Because humans don’t always share what is on their minds. This is when knowing body language will allow you to perceive the scenario correctly. Learning body language is a skill set and it doesn't need to be made too complicated. In this beginner’s class, you will learn the best place to learn body language from, static vs dynamic body language, the difference between comfortable and uncomfortable body language, and the beauty of people-watching.
Improve Leadership Class:
Leadership skills are one of those skill sets that are impactful in any field. That's because whichever field you are in, knowing how to speak to humans comes in handy. A leader not only knows how to communicate with humans, but they are also capable of influencing others as well. In this beginner's class on leadership, you will learn the art and science of primal leadership. This class will teach you the leadership mindset, basic leadership principles and strategies, how to give others direction, and where to practice leadership
Ask Better Questions:
Questions move the world. If you can ask questions with strategy, then you will build rapport, extract information better, and feel more present. But you feel like something is off. You're finding it difficult to ask questions. In this class, you will learn the myth of the perfect question, how to ask suitable questions, 4-D listening skills, and how to ask a haymaker question.
How to Sell Class:
Sales often gets a bad rep. It’s seen as sleazy. However, great businesses run on sales at one point or another. And sales don’t only play a crucial role in businesses. Rather, it plays a crucial role in any field where ideas are accepted. In this class, you will learn more about what is a sale, what many get wrong about sales, how to turn warm leads into hot leads rather than wasting time on cold leads, engaging the customer’s narrative mind, and educating rather than selling.
How to Give a Lecture Class:
Lectures are a powerful way to communicate your knowledge of a subject to others. Lectures predominantly focus on logic & points, while with other presentation types, we focus more on stories and entertainment. In this beginner's class on how to give lectures, you will learn what is a lecture, when to give a lecture, the purpose of the opener, how to create an impactful middle section of your lecture, and how to use recaps to create a powerful ending.
How to Tell Anecdotes:
Anecdotes are personal stories born from firsthand experiences. Prior to the internet, anecdotes didn't have too much value. Nowadays, anecdotes have a lot of value. In this beginner’s class on anecdotes, we will learn what are anecdotes, the value of telling anecdotes, why you should own your biases, and following general emotions and clarifying them with words.