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If I understood you, would I have this look on my face?, my adventures in the art and science of relating and communicating, Alan Alda

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If I understood you, would I have this look on my face?, my adventures in the art and science of relating and communicating, Alan Alda
Language
eng
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
If I understood you, would I have this look on my face?
Medium
large print
Responsibility statement
Alan Alda
Sub title
my adventures in the art and science of relating and communicating
Summary
The actor and founder of the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science traces his personal quest to understand how to relate and communicate better, from practicing empathy and using improv games to storytelling and developing better intuitive skills
Table Of Contents
Relating: it's the cake -- Theater games with engineers -- The heart and head of communication -- The mirror exercise -- Observation games -- Making it clear and vivid -- Reading minds: Helen Riess and Matt Lerner -- Teams -- Total listening starts with where they are -- Listening, from the boardroom to the bedroom -- Training doctors to have more empathy -- My life as a lab rat -- Working alone on building empathy -- Dark empathy -- Reading the mind of the reader -- Teaching and the flame challenge -- Emotion makes it memorable -- Story and the brain -- Commonality -- Jargon and the curse of knowledge -- The improvisation of daily life
Target audience
adult
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My adventures in the art and science of relating and communicating
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