Want to Be Perceived as Beautiful? Be Kind.
This week's podcast guest, Dr.Eva Ritvo, teamed up with her lifelong best friend to write a book that offers an expanded definition of beauty. In this episode, she unpacks the art of self-care, an important part of maintaining the balance and well-being needed to build relationships with others. Eva also shares insights from neuroscience about the importance of kindness.
Eva is an author and psychiatrist with 25 years of neuroscience and psychiatry experience. She is the former vice ...
Conversational Skills That Boost Your Social Success, Featuring Patrick King
Some people seem like they were born to be socialites. They hit it off easily with others, they handle large groups in a breeze, and they small talk with ease. While some may be born with a disposition that makes it easy to be outgoing, Conversation Coach Patrick King says that with your social life (or anything else), there are two tracks. Either believe you just are who you are and that can't be changed. Or believe you can learn and grow and change to become more of what you want.
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Hacks for Handling Difficult Conversations and Fielding Feedback
There are all kinds of conversations that we dread in life. Break-ups, firing an employee, confessing a mistake, announcing a divorce are some obvious ones. But there are also smaller, daily conversations that carry little bits of ordinary tension and awkwardness. Author Sheila Heen's podcast episode teaches us how to handle both.
Sheila has been with the Harvard Negotiation Project for twenty years, teaching negotiation and difficult conversations at Harvard Law School and in Harvar...
Searching for Morality in a High Tech Age
People still have strong ideas about what's right and wrong. In the process of exploring how our morals develop, author Eden Collinsworth sought out a prime minister, a pop star, a holocaust survivor, and a former commander of the U.S. Air Force. In this week's episode of Truth or Dare, she shares what she learned.
Eden is a former media executive and business consultant. She was president of Arbor House Publishing Co. and founder of the Los Angeles-based monthly lifestyle magazine, ...
He Can Tell A Lot About You Just by Listening to the Words You Choose.
Have you ever ran into someone who constantly talked about themselves? Every sentence seemed to begin with "I," for example. You probably make assumptions about what that person is like based on the way they excessively drop the word "I" into conversation. But did you know there are 180 words in the English language that giveaway a little bit about a person's identity. Intriguing, right? If you think so too, you need to listen to Dr.James Pennebaker.
Dr.Pennebaker is a Social Psycholog...