Will Jelbert - Word Wise: Say What You Mean, Deepen Your Connections, and Get to the Point

In this original take on why and how we use the words we do, Will Jelbert is a Marie Kondo for language: challenging our worst habits and offering a way through the clutter and laziness.

Kate Riordan, The Guardian, (and best-selling author of The Heatwave and The Girl in the Photograph)

Our words matter in creating our happiness and success. Just as we clutter our homes through neglect and habit, Will Jelbert illustrates how we often clutter our minds and relationships with unhelpful language. More importantly, he brilliantly shows how mindful word selection can spark powerful connections and joy. This book is an essential guide for a social-mediasaturated generation.

Michelle Gielan, best-selling author of Broadcasting Happiness

One of the most personally influential books that Ive read in my lifenot only will it transform your day-to-day communication skills, but all your relationships around you as well. This is not a book that you read once and put down, but one that you pick up and reread over and over again.

Fiona Fong, founder and CEO, FIKA, and former speedskating Olympian

This book will make you more conscious of your words. It will make you more honest. It will help you build genuine connections with the people in your life who matter most. And it will make you laugh out loud.

Adam Smiley Poswolsky, best-selling author of The Breakthrough Speaker, The Quarter-Life Breakthrough, and Friendship in the Age of Loneliness

This is a book every Latin person should read to understand the secrets behind the language of Americans.

Francisca Garcia, Ms. Latina International 2018

Just as the common poisonous phrases of polite conversation employed in lying and self-deception for the sake of a phony peace are the source of most human conflict, divorce, and all the many forms of social breakdownphony diplomacy is the very essence of what causes war. [Here are] a few words that might help, in the pell-mell rush to genocide, for the whole human race.

Brad Blanton, PhD, author of Radical Honesty, The Truthtellers, and Radical Parenting

Will takes an approach to words and phrases that is refreshingly jarring and different than any other Ive seen. [Keep this book] handy to spark inspiration.

Max Stossel, founder of Words That Move; award-winning filmmaker and poet; named by Forbes as one of the best storytellers of 2016

Word Wise is a refreshing, intelligent, and much-needed polemic against an increasingly dystopian worldFahrenheit 451 meets 1984which rejects discourse and logic, and twists language to fit ideology. Word Wise celebrates Logos and helps cut through the nonsense for clear and precise speaking and, therefore, thinking.

Patrick Fagan, former lead psychologist at Cambridge Analytica, and lecturer in consumer behavior at Goldsmiths

This book demonstrates how powerful ones vocabulary is at determining how individuals make connections with others, view the world, and how ones level of happiness can vary based on simple word choice.

Jean Marie Gunshanan, CCC-SLP, speech-language pathologist, New York City Department of Education

Brutally honest, but also eye-opening, because I am a culprit of using probably 100 percent of word trash.

Yesenia Capalbo, editor, Reuters

I find myself laughing a lot. I think a lot of New Yorkers can relate to the day-to-day behavior of people in the cityI know I did!

Jharonne Martis, director of consumer research, Reuters

For my parents