In this TED talk, Celeste Headlee touches on the topic of how to be a better communicator and have better conversations with others. As she states at the beginning, we live in a world "...in which every conversation has the potential to devolve into an argument...".
She begins by posing the argument we are more divided than ever before, which I could not agree more with. She poses another argument, saying if we are paying attention, there is no reason to learn how to show this. The more important thing is to learn how to properly respond to what it is you are paying attention to.
My favorite point she makes at the end of the TED talk in order to be a better converser is to just listen. I feel this is so important, because everyone is so quick to begin talking about themselves, that they often nullify or tune out what it is the other person is saying, until it is their turn to speak. This results in a conversation being one way, which ultimately is arguably not a conversation at all; just bantering back and forth without listening to one another.
All in all, I agree with the points Headlee makes throughout the TED talk about how to be better at having a conversation with others. If only everyone else, especially people like politicians, were able to take this advice too and utilize it, maybe then we would have less divide in the world.
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