Grace Beverley

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Working Hard with Grace Beverley · How to have better conversations (that add true value to your life) · 13 Jul 2026 podcast

I guess what the science says is that the idea that great conversation requires some sort of social gift or natural charisma is frankly not backed up by the evidence at all. matched

And to go off on a little tangent, I think the stakes for developing that skill have actually never been higher. matched

The More In Common project, which has been tracking social division across the US, UK and Europe for 10 years, matched

actually found that we are consistently overestimating how much we disagree with each other. matched

I think we can all tell this, like we see the polarisation, and the data shows that people across the political spectrum actually share far more common ground than they actually think. matched

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Because we've stopped having real conversations with people who maybe see things differently to us, our assumptions about each other have calcified. matched

For example, a Pew Research study from 2023 found that political polarisation in the US has nearly doubled since the 1990s, with the sharpest increase coming not from people's actual policy views shifting, but from their unwillingness to engage with the other side at all. matched

And that's not just political either. matched

Research from the Harvard Human Flourishing Program found that loneliness and social disconnection are now at record levels globally, with nearly one in three adults reporting that they have no one to talk to about the things that really matter to them. matched

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I think just that all of this paints a pretty direct picture of a society who doesn't know how to talk to each other anymore on the opportunities and everyday level, but also all the way through to the human level. matched

We have to be good at engaging in discussions and conversations. matched

We can't always just want to flick back to our phone quickly because we're not really enjoying that conversation. matched

Yes, that's easy to do. matched

And yes, I do it as well. matched

It's just... matched

It's depressing when you think about it. matched

There is so much that you can get out of conversation with people from all different walks of life. matched

And I actually don't think until I started this podcast that I was that good at having those conversations with people. matched

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