10 ways to have a better conversation | Celeste Headlee
When your job hinges on how well you talk to people, you learn a lot about how to have conversations — and that most of us don't converse very well. Celeste Headlee has worked as a radio...
==========
All right, I want to see a show of hands:how many of you have unfriended someone on Facebookbecause they said something offensive about politics or religion,childcare, food?(Laughter)And how many of you know at least one person that you avoidbecause you just don't want to talk to them?(Laughter)You know, it used to be that in order to have a polite conversation,we just had to follow the advice of Henry Higgins in "My Fair Lady":Stick to the weather and your health.But these days, with climate change and anti-vaxxing, those subjects --(Laughter)are not safe either.So this world that we live in,this world in which every conversationhas the potential to devolve into an argument,where our politicians can't speak to one anotherand where even ...
==========
All right, I want to see a show of hands:how many of you have unfriended someone on Facebookbecause they said something offensive about politics or religion,childcare, food?(Laughter)And how many of you know at least one person that you avoidbecause you just don't want to talk to them?(Laughter)You know, it used to be that in order to have a polite conversation,we just had to follow the advice of Henry Higgins in "My Fair Lady":Stick to the weather and your health.But these days, with climate change and anti-vaxxing, those subjects --(Laughter)are not safe either.So this world that we live in,this world in which every conversationhas the potential to devolve into an argument,where our politicians can't speak to one anotherand where even ...
