How To Communicate Effectively With Other Human Beings

This is the 10% Happier Podcast. I'm Dan Harris. Hello, happy Sunday, everybody. One observation that you might have heard me make before, but that I never get tired of thinking about is that We are, as everybody knows, as every TED talk reminds us, social creatures.

We need interaction in order to thrive. One of the principal ways in which we interact is through speech, conversation. But very few of us are ever taught how to, in the words of a popular book on the subject, talk so that people will listen and listen so that people will talk. We've got all these untrained speakers out there, billions of them. interacting with other untrained speakers, and you see the results, not only in all of the interpersonal tangles in which we find ourselves on the daily, but also on a macro scale in the political and geopolitical morass that is playing out on our screens.

It's babble. So today I'm going to play you a conversation I recently had on the subject of conversation. Actually, in this conversation, I am the interviewee. I recently went on a podcast called Think Fast, Talk Smart. It's hosted by Matt Abrahams, who is a senior lecturer of strategic communication at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

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