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Alan Alda, the award-profitable actor and bestselling writer, tells us the fascinating story of his quest to discover ways to talk higher, and to show others to do the identical. With his trademark humor and candor, he explores the right way to develop empathy as the important thing issue.
Alan Alda has been on a many years-lengthy journey to find new methods to assist individuals talk and relate to at least one one other extra successfully. If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face? is the nice and cozy, witty, and informative chronicle of how Alda discovered inspiration in the whole lot from slicing-edge science to basic appearing strategies. His search started when he was host of PBS’s Scientific American Frontiers, the place he interviewed hundreds of scientists and developed a knack for serving to them talk complicated concepts in methods a large viewers might perceive—and Alda questioned if these methods held a clue to raised communication for the remainder of us.
In his wry and sensible voice, Alda displays on moments of miscommunication in his personal life, when an absence of understanding resulted in issues each huge and small. He guides us via his discoveries, displaying how communication may be improved by way of studying to narrate to the opposite individual: listening with our eyes, in search of clues in one other’s face, utilizing the facility of a compelling story, avoiding jargon, and studying one other individual so properly that you simply turn into “in sync” with them, and know what they’re considering and feeling—particularly if you’re speaking concerning the exhausting stuff.
Drawing on improvisation coaching, theater, and storytelling methods from a lifetime of appearing, and with insights from current scientific research, Alda describes methods we will construct empathy, nurture our innate thoughts-studying talents, and enhance the best way we relate and speak with others. Exploring empathy-boosting video games and workouts, If I Understood You is a humorous, thought-frightening information that can be utilized by all of us, in each facet of our lives—with our buddies, lovers, and households, with our docs, in enterprise settings, and past.
Advance reward for If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?
“In this charming, witty, and thought-frightening guide, filled with wealthy anecdotes, Alan Alda describes a few of the instruments of communication that he teaches in his work with the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science and exhibits how everybody—from lovers to politicians to scientists—can profit from being higher communicators. The points he touches on are extra essential now than ever.”—Lawrence M. Krauss, writer of The Greatest Story Ever Told . . . So Far
“I’ve spent a lifetime making an attempt to know and use the artwork of communication. And then comes this fellow Alda—actor, interviewer, educational, and, principally, scholar—who teaches me new, useable concepts. Communicating is on the coronary heart of connectedness. Alda, together with his laudable curiosity, has discovered one thing you and I can use proper now.”—Charlie Rose
“Sit again and luxuriate in Alan Alda’s scientific journey of communication.”—Barbara Walters
“Alda, who has made a distinguished and worthwhile profession out of empathy—in appearing, writing, and political considering—now provides us a ebook that exhibits empathy to be the important thing to understanding, and thus to a a lot improved life. The trade of feeling of 1 individual with one other makes it attainable for every to understand one thing totally different and bigger than each: a pleasant and helpful shock of data. Alda proves his concept virtually casually, with self-effacing good enjoyable, however it’s a true revelation. You marvel, How has one accomplished with out such a ebook?”—Roger Rosenblatt, writer of Thomas Murphy
