David Gillespie & Mark Warren 
How To Be Interesting 
Simple Ways to Increase Your Personal Appeal

An irreverent, colourful guide to becoming more interesting and
successful by gaining self-knowledge and building your confidence
and charisma

In addition to having scads of acting and writing credits
between them, actor David Gillespie and writer Mark Warren are
co-founders of a unique organization. Called The Speechworks, it is
a group of performance-based professionals who draw upon their
professional expertise to teach clients–including
businesspeople, sports stars, politicians, actors, writers and
celebrities–the skills they need to communicate more
effectively, to impress others with charisma and find greater
success at work and in life. In this wildly funny, irreverent and
practical guide they share their proprietary formula for achieving
a heightened and sustained level of interestingness.

* Practical tips for achieving everyday interestingness, along
with personality tests to aid self-knowledge

* Tons of fascinating quotes, outrageous humour and vibrant
visual material–including mindmaps and infographics

* Everything you need to increase your personal appeal, engage
more effectively with those around you and lead a more enjoyable
and fulfilling life

* The Speechworks clients include Fortune 500 & FTSE 100
companies, professional bodies, start-ups and SMEs, charities,
politicians and sports personalities

Table of Content

1 Know yourself Page 29

2 Be interested Page 50

3 Be enquiring Page 86

4 Be you Page 118

About the author

The actor, David Gillespie and writer, Mark Warren have many acting and writing credits between them in TV, film, stage and publishing.
They are also the founders of The Speechworks – a select group of performance-based professionals who brings years of experience from the worlds of film, TV, theatre, presentation, psychology, advertising, PR, journalism and voice production. They use this experience and insight to teach the skills and techniques that professional performers employ and help clients harness them with confidence.