Did you know that you were born as a salesperson? Daniel Pink argues that each of us practices selling on a regular basis, be it working in sales or persuading a friend to try a new food. Pink looks at storytelling and persuasion's roles in selling, as well as what the latest psychology, economics, and linguistics have to say on the matter.

Our lives are a never-ending stream of decisions: when to start a business, schedule a class, get serious about a person. Yet we make those decisions based on intuition and guesswork. Pink reveals how to use the hidden patterns of the day to build the ideal schedule, and the ideal time to quit a job, switch careers, or get married. He distills cutting-edge research and data on timing into a fascinating, readable narrative that gives readers compelling...