If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?: My

If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?: My Adventures in the Art and Science of Relating and Communicating

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER â€¢ Award-winning actor Alan Alda tells the fascinating story of his quest to learn how to communicate better, and to teach others to do the same. With his trademark humor and candor, he explores how to develop empathy as the key factor.

â€œInvaluable.â€â€”Deborah Tannen, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Youâ€™re the Only One I Can Tell and You Just Donâ€™t Understand

Alan Alda has been on a decades-long journey to discover new ways to help people communicate and relate to one another more effectively. If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face? is the warm, witty, and informative chronicle of how Alda found inspiration in everything from cutting-edge science to classic acting methods. His search began when he was host of PBSâ€™sÂ Scientific American Frontiers, where he interviewed thousands of scientists and developed a knack for helping them communicate complex ideas in ways a wide audience could understandâ€”and Alda wondered if those techniques held a clue to better communication for the rest of us.

In his wry and wise voice, Alda reflects on moments of miscommunication in his own life, when an absence of understanding resulted in problems both big and small. He guides us through his discoveries, showing how communication can be improved through learning to relate to the other person: listening with our eyes, looking for clues in anotherâ€™s face, using the power of a compelling story, avoiding jargon, and reading another person so well that you become â€œin syncâ€ with them, and know what they are thinking and feelingâ€”especially when youâ€™re talking about the hard stuff.

Drawing on improvisation training, theater, and storytelling techniques from a life of acting, and with insights from recent scientific studies, Alda describes ways we can build empathy, nurture our innate mind-reading abilities, and improve the way we relate and talk with others. Exploring empathy-boosting games and exercises,Â If I Understood You is a funny, thought-provoking guide that can be used by all of us, in every aspect of our livesâ€”with our friends, lovers, and families, with our doctors, in business settings, and beyond.

â€œAlda uses his trademark humor and a well-honed ability to get to the point, to help us all learn how to leverage the better communicator inside each of us.â€â€”Forbes

â€œAlda, with his laudable curiosity, has learned something you and I can use right now.â€â€”Charlie Rose
Country USA
Brand RANDOM HOUSE GROUP
Manufacturer Random House
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 9780812989144
Color White
ReleaseDate 2017-06-06
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780812989144

Country	USA
Brand	RANDOM HOUSE GROUP
Manufacturer	Random House
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	9780812989144
Color	White
ReleaseDate	2017-06-06
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780812989144

If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?: My Adventures in the Art and Science of Relating and Communicating

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