Dan Harris

I'm going to start with a super obvious basic question, which is what is interpersonal synchrony?

I want to read a very beautiful passage from you back to you, and then maybe you can elaborate on it on the other side.

Is that okay?

Okay, synchrony, this is you, synchrony between humans is nothing short of a superpower.

Compared to other species, we are not imposing in size or strength.

We are not terribly fast or nimble.

Our senses are pretty feeble and our brains, while capable of astounding feats of cognition and imagination, are

are nevertheless limited and subject to all kinds of processing errors.

But thanks to interpersonal synchrony, we can marshal and coordinate our bodies and brains to communicate, innovate, create, build, sustain, and succeed in ways that far exceed what we could accomplish alone.

We are all tuning forks, and I love that.

We're all tuning forks roaming the planet, picking up vibes and finding resonance with those we encounter.

Yeah, so I just love to hear you just elaborate on that a little bit.

One of the many things I find interesting about this is this idea of interpersonal synchrony kind of cuts against the cult of individualism that we're seeing in our society.

And individualism has been around for a while, but it is now in a toxic partnership with technology, which drives us further and further into our own heads and into our own little information silos.

And it seems to me that ignoring interpersonal synchrony really just comes at our own peril.

I want to ask you later about Zoom, but let's put a pin in that for a second.

On a very basic level, if we all emit a distinct vibe, is there anything we can do to change our vibe so that we click more successfully with more of our fellow humans and I guess animals too?

All right.

So I just want to double click on that a little bit.

So I think you're saying is like, I cannot necessarily control my baseline affective presence or vibe.