73. Listen Up: Why It’s Better to Be Interested than Interesting

As a communication expert, Alison Wood Brooks spends a lot of time talking about talking. But, as she says, listening is just as important.
“My course is called TALK,” says Wood Brooks, who is the O'Brien Associate Professor of Business Administration and Hellman Faculty Fellow at Harvard Business School. “The great irony is that it should really be called LISTEN. It’s hard to be a good listener yet so very important.”
In the latest episode of Think Fast, Talk Smart, Wood Brooks covers conversation strategies for active listening, turning anxiety into excitement, and knowing when it’s time to change the subject. #podcast #thinkfasttalksmart

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1:21: 😃 Allison Wood Brooks discusses a coping strategy for managing speaking anxiety by reframing anxious feelings as excitement.]
6:09: 🗣 The Talk course at Harvard's Business School aims to help people improve their conversations by focusing on topics, asking, levity, and kindness.
8:56: 🗣 Structure in communication is the logical connection of ideas and helps solve the problems of what to say and how to say it.
13:39: 🗣 The conversation is influenced by the choices we make in topic selection and management, including supporting or shifting choices.
17:22: 👂 The human mind is built to wander and conversation demands focused attention.
20:37: ✨ The importance of being more interested than interesting in conversations and communication.
Recap by Tammy AI

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it's also best to listening for me

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Great! Thanks 👍

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This sounded like them roasting each other at the end lol

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That's actually interesting❤️❤️