How to Build Rapport With Anyone (Without Being Fake)
This episode is narrated by David's AI voice — a digital copy of his voice he uses so the show keeps going on the days he can't record.
Show notes
Rapport isn't charisma and it isn't a parlour trick — it's what happens when someone's threat-detection system stands down. David Watts takes the mechanism apart: why deliberate mimicry backfires, what NLP calls pacing, and the three honest behaviours that do the real work. Plus the single question that tells you whether you've crossed from connection into manipulation.
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This episode was narrated by an AI clone of my own voice, trained on this show.
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