I read Barbara Walters book all the time. It is a great idea magnifier and she has been where some of us will never go as far as some the big politicos and the small business fellow citizens.
She put the book in a form so you can read any chapter and it can be picked up and put down a month and be as fresh when you pick it up again.
You can begin anywhere in the book because it has various themes.
If you are afraid of personal contacts with strangers she will tell you in the pages that she was at times as stumped for an answer to her question with an unknown person as anyone could be. Yet she rolled on.
She interviewed Prince Philip when he just wanted to leave town for home, yet she found a way for them to enjoy a good talk together. How do you pry open a man's mouth who had been asked all the obvious questions a hundred times? Read her story and find out how to be personable. Enjoy it, I do all the time.