to communicate well
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to communicate well
Understanding Others' Emotions | Lisa Feldman Barrett
youtube.comA fantastic insight by Lisa Feldman Barrett: When someone expresses anxiety, the first thing you should do is ask: do you want empathy or do you want a solution?
Will 100% use this phrase going forward.
“If I have a difficult thing to understand, if there’s something I think is not going to be that easy to get, I try to say it in three different ways. I think if you come in from different angles you have a better chance of getting a three-dimensional view of this difficult idea.”
Big Think • 3 Rules to Express Your Thoughts So That Everyone Will Understand You
An interesting thing about communication is that most people assume everyone speaks the way they do, when in truth we all come into a conversation with our own language. It takes time, context, intentionality and framework to have a shared language, ease in communication. 1/
Tricia Pickrenx.com
I wanted to share my most memorable VC pass email of all time, Maple back in the fall from @schlaf. Thoughtful and empathetic:
"I've been wrong more than I've been right so take this all with a grain of salt. I hope you prove me wrong and make me regret this decision."
Offering undivided attention and curiosity not only lowers the temperature of a conversation but can change its outcome
Guy Itzchakov • Why Listening Well Can Make Disagreements Less Damaging
19 Things You Can Say to People in 10 Seconds That Sometimes Produce Insanely Outsized Effects
1. Yeah, someone *should* do that. Why not you?
2. Is there something you could do about that problem in the next five minutes?
3. That's a great thought - have you written it up somewhere? I'd be excited to share it if so.
4. Should you write a blog or
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