Professor Alison Wood Brooks

They have more repetitions and they grew up in the real world where they were forced to develop the skills.

On the front of your book, Talk, it says the science of conversation and the art of being ourselves.

Do you think we should shut to work as our authentic selves?

What happens in Vegas?

Strategic authenticity.

Do you pretend and act?

So you can be slightly insincere in the pursuit of sincerity.

Oh.

Okay.

So when I met you, you did ask me how I was doing.

I know.

I think that's why I'm excited by it because it is the great unknown.

And in some respects in my head, this might be the wrong framing, but it feels like the great sacrifice.

That's terrifying to hear.

It is terrifying to hear objectively.

Like, I understand what you're saying, and I agree.

But it's also, as a statement for anybody, to know that they're kind of giving up... Your current self, sense of self.

For someone else you've never met.

And how do you do that?

I'm sure there's loads of parents screaming right now, like, how do I set my kid up so that they can talk well?