Professor Alison Wood Brooks

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Professor Alison Wood Brooks, what is it that you do and why do you think it matters so much to the world?

And if someone's chosen to listen to this conversation now, they've just clicked on it and they're thinking, you know, should I stay or should I go?

What promise can we give them if they stay and listen to this conversation that is based on the work you've done in your book and all the research you've done?

What is it that you think the average person can come away with that will have a meaningful impact on their day-to-day life?

But conversations are easy, right?

Like

very clear strategies to help us with all of that as you were saying that i was thinking do you think there's a lot of people that are going through life giving off the wrong impression because they don't know how to talk maybe they are disliked maybe they are misunderstood because they haven't mastered the science of how to have a great conversation

if you had to pinpoint just a few things that people want when they think about becoming a great conversationalist, like what is it that we actually are aiming at?

Is it to be, you know, what is that?

I would like you to teach me how to talk really, really well.

No, I think I do.

I think I do.

Because, you know, I was thinking about this last week and all the conversations I've had, the different types of conversations.

I had one conversation where I met someone's family for the first time who works with me.

And it was, you know, it was a little bit nerve wracking because that contact, you know, people have these moments where they meet the in-laws or whatever, or they meet...

For me, it's often meeting someone who works for me as family.