WE NEED TO TALK

Yes, we need grit to get through each day successfully; having presence is also quite useful, especially when we need to get a confidence boost or self-calm. But there's a third skill that is as important to success in all areas of your life: knowing how to talk to people. This uniquely human way of communicating is in danger and our friendships, work, and family lives all are suffering.

To talk is human; to text is not. In a time of demagogues and increasingly tribe-like behavior, never have we needed to communicate better and clearer and more than we do now. Indeed, saying the wrong thing in a conversation is a universal experience; whether one is misunderstanding what was being said or failing to get one's point across. National Public Radio's Celeste Headlee, dives into the research as well as her own experience at a unique "conversation laboratory" to explore this timely and important issue.

Celeste's TED talk has more than 10 million views: https://www.ted.com/talks/celeste_headlee_10_ways_to_have_a_better_conversation?language=en