Three New People: Make the Most of Your Daily Interactions and Stop Missing Amazing Opportunities

by Brian Miller

“Practical, powerful, and a delight to read. A book like Brian’s can change everything for someone who cares.”-Seth Godin, Author, This is Marketing

Connect with anyone. Strengthen your relationships. Build a sustainable career.

Three New People is a manifesto on the beauty and power of human connection in a world where loneliness has reached epidemic levels. We’re rushed, frazzled, distracted, and frankly, scared to talk to strangers. But what if it didn’t have to be that way?

What if we could easily connect with anyone we meet – on the airplane, at the coffee shop, waiting in line, in the elevator – and take the chance of making a new one that might last for seconds, or for a lifetime?

As a child with social anxiety, Brian Miller used magic in order to make friends. Now, as a globetrotting professional magician turned motivational speaker, he presents his secrets for connecting with the people you meet on a daily basis.

With the same mix of insight and storytelling from his popular TEDx talk "How to Magically Connect with Anyone," Brian personal, and wild stories from a career in magic.

*An action-oriented four-step system for making others feel heard, understood, and valued (E.A.R.S.).

*Tricks to develop self-confidence (and why you can fake confidence, but not sincerity).

*3 concrete techniques for building strong connections at networking events.

*5 ways to remember people's names (and why it really, truly matters).

*Humorous and heart-warming anecdotes that will inspire you to change your world - at school, at home, at the office, or in your community - one person at a time.

Genres: Nonfiction

232 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 4, 2018

About the author

Brian Miller is a keynote speaker and message design consultant whose TEDx talk "How to Magically Connect with Anyone" has surpassed 3.7 million views. He is the founder of Clarity Up Consulting, a boutique firm specializing in core messaging and message design for experts, leaders, and founders. Brian is one of five co-founders of core messaging as a formal discipline and has consulted on more than 45 TEDx talks with a combined 20 million views across 30+ subject areas and 11 distinct industries. He is the author of The One-Page Keynote (Rethink Press, 2026) and Three New People (Self Published, 2018), and a recipient of four Communicator Awards of Excellence, six Cicero Speechwriting Awards, and two Anthem Awards for social impact. A former professional magician, Brian brings a practitioner's precision to the art of human connection. He is based in Virginia Beach, Virginia, and works with clients globally through his consulting team.

Reviews

[Noreen · Rating 4 out of 5]

The title of this book caught my attention. It was an interesting book and concept that reinforced some basic communication skills. But the intriguing part explores how we speak to each other. It’s so easy to be superficial with the ‘3 new people’ we meet each day. What are we missing by not making more meaningful connections?

[Barry Mcdonough · Rating 5 out of 5]

I can’t say enough great things about this book, thoroughly enjoyable and spot on.

[Ella · Rating 1 out of 5]

I'm finished, but I didn't actually finish.

I couldn't stand the language of this book and stopped before I could even start: "My guess is whether you were thinking about this consciously or not...", "That can't be true, you're thinking".

Stop focusing on what you think I'm thinking and write the stupid book already, will ya?

[Philippe Lenain · Rating 2 out of 5]

filled with storytelling and little content