Elegant speech is an art, and good expressive ability can promote the development of people's career and social communication in a better direction. The art of conversation can help you knock on people's hearts, soften people's will, make you the object of people's interest in various occasions, make you comfortable in social occasions, bring you customers and have fixed partners. However, the "art of conversation" is not as simple as imagined. The trouble for many people is that they can't "chat". Even though they are eager to express their inner thoughts, they just can't express them properly. In fact, people who usually can't express themselves often have nothing to say because of lack of thoughts and lack of dry goods in their heads. If you want to improve your expressive ability, you must enrich your thoughts first. So how to enrich your mind quickly? Longfellow, an American poet, once said, "Look at some good pictures, listen to a beautiful piece of music or read a famous poem every day. Take half an hour or an hour to study every day, and stick to it for a year. You will find that there will always be sparks of thought in your mind. The usual accumulation has become a treasure, and even you will be surprised. " In other words, we can enrich our thoughts through study and the edification of art and books. In addition, the author also provides us with several conversation contents that should be avoided for readers' reference: First, try to avoid talking about yourself, and don't talk about your career and social circle. Two: don't talk about your pain and sorrow casually, but talk as little as possible. No one will be interested in your pain, and people will only be impatient with your frequent complaints. Three: Try to avoid talking about family chores and the relationship with servants. Four: Don't talk about serious religious topics in public social occasions. Five: In conversation, don't have too strong "self-awareness". The so-called self-awareness means showing yourself everywhere, blindly showing off, trusting your friends and boasting is the most offensive. Besides chatting, listening is also a profound art. The best thing to please others is to let him know that you are listening to him seriously and with great interest. Being a good listener is second only to being a good talk artist. So while learning the art of talking, we should also learn to listen.