Alison Wood Brooks

Thank you, Mike. I really appreciate you having me on the show, and I'm looking forward to following along.

Thank you, Mike. I really appreciate you having me on the show, and I'm looking forward to following along.

Thank you, Mike. I really appreciate you having me on the show, and I'm looking forward to following along.

Even in conversations where you walk away feeling like, oh my gosh, that was great. If you look back at the transcript, what you would see is we interrupt each other all the time. There's all kinds of moments of misunderstanding. But there are these moments where you'd say, wow, oh, that felt really good.

Even in conversations where you walk away feeling like, oh my gosh, that was great. If you look back at the transcript, what you would see is we interrupt each other all the time. There's all kinds of moments of misunderstanding. But there are these moments where you'd say, wow, oh, that felt really good.

Even in conversations where you walk away feeling like, oh my gosh, that was great. If you look back at the transcript, what you would see is we interrupt each other all the time. There's all kinds of moments of misunderstanding. But there are these moments where you'd say, wow, oh, that felt really good.

Thank you so much for having me. I'm so happy to be here.

Thank you so much for having me. I'm so happy to be here.

Thank you so much for having me. I'm so happy to be here.

conversation is a surprisingly vast ocean of complexity. There's a lot going on under the hood for something we learn to do as toddlers and practice doing every day of our lives every day, all day long with a huge range of partners. It feels like we get to adulthood and we should be experts. And in truth, we are far from being expert at conversation.

conversation is a surprisingly vast ocean of complexity. There's a lot going on under the hood for something we learn to do as toddlers and practice doing every day of our lives every day, all day long with a huge range of partners. It feels like we get to adulthood and we should be experts. And in truth, we are far from being expert at conversation.

conversation is a surprisingly vast ocean of complexity. There's a lot going on under the hood for something we learn to do as toddlers and practice doing every day of our lives every day, all day long with a huge range of partners. It feels like we get to adulthood and we should be experts. And in truth, we are far from being expert at conversation.

yeah i think we we in a way are learning all the time by watching other people and just sort of bumping and stumbling through life we have little mini successes and we think okay well i'll try that again or we have little fail little or big failures and think oh well i guess i won't do that again And so we're kind of learning through the school of hard knocks as we go through life.

yeah i think we we in a way are learning all the time by watching other people and just sort of bumping and stumbling through life we have little mini successes and we think okay well i'll try that again or we have little fail little or big failures and think oh well i guess i won't do that again And so we're kind of learning through the school of hard knocks as we go through life.

yeah i think we we in a way are learning all the time by watching other people and just sort of bumping and stumbling through life we have little mini successes and we think okay well i'll try that again or we have little fail little or big failures and think oh well i guess i won't do that again And so we're kind of learning through the school of hard knocks as we go through life.

But you're right. It's a very wicked feedback environment where we don't get perfect feedback about how we're doing. And we certainly don't often take classes about how to have conversation until now.

But you're right. It's a very wicked feedback environment where we don't get perfect feedback about how we're doing. And we certainly don't often take classes about how to have conversation until now.

But you're right. It's a very wicked feedback environment where we don't get perfect feedback about how we're doing. And we certainly don't often take classes about how to have conversation until now.

That's right. Yeah, we're getting less practice than ever before in human history. And with less practice comes less feedback and sort of the feedback we do get is even more mysterious and diffuse. I mean, when you're texting someone, you have no idea how your messages are landing with them, right? You can't read their facial expressions.

That's right. Yeah, we're getting less practice than ever before in human history. And with less practice comes less feedback and sort of the feedback we do get is even more mysterious and diffuse. I mean, when you're texting someone, you have no idea how your messages are landing with them, right? You can't read their facial expressions.