The Science of Conversation: How To Say What You Mean, Be Heard, and Stop People-Pleasing | Alison Wood Brooks

This is the 10% Happier Podcast. I'm Dan Harris. Hello, everybody. How are we doing? Today we're coming back to something that I marvel at all the time.

You may have heard me say this before, but I'm going to say it again. We are social animals. Humans evolve to thrive in relationship with other people. We're born helpless and howling and we rely on other people to take care of us and then we take care of other people, etc., etc. We're in a whether we like it or not, in a in an in a web.

And yet, and and this is the shocking part, given how connection is in our DNA. It's shocking to me that we are rarely, if ever, taught how to deal with other people. We're just kind of like let loose into the world to fuck it up. So specifically today, we're going to talk about this science of conversation. Many of us are talking all day, every day.

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