Alison Wood Brooks

They're very, at least for my husband, I always say he's like the heartbeat of our family and it's really amazing.

They're very, at least for my husband, I always say he's like the heartbeat of our family and it's really amazing.

They're very, at least for my husband, I always say he's like the heartbeat of our family and it's really amazing.

Definitely. I love the idea of just the fact that they're having them do it rather than just read about it or study about it or learn about something. It helps to close what we call the knowing doing gap, right? It's one thing to know something. It's a completely different thing to be able to do it in practice.

Definitely. I love the idea of just the fact that they're having them do it rather than just read about it or study about it or learn about something. It helps to close what we call the knowing doing gap, right? It's one thing to know something. It's a completely different thing to be able to do it in practice.

Definitely. I love the idea of just the fact that they're having them do it rather than just read about it or study about it or learn about something. It helps to close what we call the knowing doing gap, right? It's one thing to know something. It's a completely different thing to be able to do it in practice.

And so the best way to learn how to close that knowing-doing gap is to actually practice doing it, which sounds like your son is getting to do in this class, which is fabulous. It's also what I do in my course at Harvard called Talk, which is, it's one thing to know what good conversation looks like. It's a completely other thing to be able to actually execute and do it.

And so the best way to learn how to close that knowing-doing gap is to actually practice doing it, which sounds like your son is getting to do in this class, which is fabulous. It's also what I do in my course at Harvard called Talk, which is, it's one thing to know what good conversation looks like. It's a completely other thing to be able to actually execute and do it.

And so the best way to learn how to close that knowing-doing gap is to actually practice doing it, which sounds like your son is getting to do in this class, which is fabulous. It's also what I do in my course at Harvard called Talk, which is, it's one thing to know what good conversation looks like. It's a completely other thing to be able to actually execute and do it.

And so when I put my students in lots of different situations to actually practice the art and the science of conversation in real time in a very safe and I hope loving environment in our classroom.

And so when I put my students in lots of different situations to actually practice the art and the science of conversation in real time in a very safe and I hope loving environment in our classroom.

And so when I put my students in lots of different situations to actually practice the art and the science of conversation in real time in a very safe and I hope loving environment in our classroom.

Oh, what a great question. We can definitely use your term. I like micro choices just as much as micro decisions. Well, we talked about this a little bit, John. Life is a series of moments. It's a series of micro choices. And what I realized in my research on conversation is that that's what we're doing when we're interacting with somebody else.

Oh, what a great question. We can definitely use your term. I like micro choices just as much as micro decisions. Well, we talked about this a little bit, John. Life is a series of moments. It's a series of micro choices. And what I realized in my research on conversation is that that's what we're doing when we're interacting with somebody else.

Oh, what a great question. We can definitely use your term. I like micro choices just as much as micro decisions. Well, we talked about this a little bit, John. Life is a series of moments. It's a series of micro choices. And what I realized in my research on conversation is that that's what we're doing when we're interacting with somebody else.

It's just a series of hundreds of micro choices over time as every conversation unfolds.

It's just a series of hundreds of micro choices over time as every conversation unfolds.

It's just a series of hundreds of micro choices over time as every conversation unfolds.

And if we can aim to make some of those choices just a little bit more effectively, because we talk to people so often and every day across every domain of our lives, in accumulation, if you can make some of those choices more effectively, that's going to have a massive impact on your life, on your career, on your family, on your love life, all of it.

And if we can aim to make some of those choices just a little bit more effectively, because we talk to people so often and every day across every domain of our lives, in accumulation, if you can make some of those choices more effectively, that's going to have a massive impact on your life, on your career, on your family, on your love life, all of it.