to communicate well

musings, examples, and insights on good communication

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SStuart Evans

stumbled across in an Experimental History substack article

Unless I Hear Differently — Work Good & Fast With Clients & Teams

unlessiheardifferent.com

alex

Sam Liebeskind

Vocabulary as a Meta Mental Model

Neil Kakkar neilkakkar.com

Tanuj

Understanding Social Signals: How Do We Recognize the Intentions of Others?

Jan P. De Ruiter frontiersin.org

Danielle Vermeer

Getting Past No: Negotiating in Difficult Situations

William Ury • 3 highlights

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Cover of Getting Past No: Negotiating in Difficult Situations

sari

Closed questions are also bad questions. Instead of surrendering power, the questioner is imposing a limit on how the question can be answered.

David Brooks • How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

simon

"i'm here with you" hits much harder than "i'm here for you"

-molly mielke

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Understanding Others' Emotions | Lisa Feldman Barrett

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ssari

A 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.