What podcasts say about Alison Wood Brooks
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What Alison Wood Brooks has said on podcasts
18 statements · 15 positive · 2 negative · 1 mixed
The TALK framework is the world’s most comprehensive and rigorous communication framework.
“T, A L, K, is the most comprehensive, teachable, practical, scientifically rigorous framework in the world for communication.”
Open the episode · Most Replayed Moment: The Framework To Instantly Become Better At Conversation!Listen at 1:59
The TALK framework can coach conversationalists and evaluate conversations for humans or machines.
“the framework can be used by humans or machines to coach people to be better conversationalists and used as a rubric after the fact”
Open the episode · Most Replayed Moment: The Framework To Instantly Become Better At Conversation!Listen at 2:44
People can influence conversation direction through their topic choices.
“we all have power. We all have control to nudge the conversation one way or another”
Open the episode · Most Replayed Moment: The Framework To Instantly Become Better At Conversation!Listen at 3:49
People should briefly prepare possible topics before conversations.
“spending even 30 seconds, maybe even 10 seconds before you're in the chaos of a conversation to think about what you could talk about”
Open the episode · Most Replayed Moment: The Framework To Instantly Become Better At Conversation!Listen at 4:33
Achieving more conversational goals makes people more likable and competent.
“if you can achieve more of your goals, whether they're high informational, low informational, high relational, low relational, all of that makes you more likable”
Open the episode · Most Replayed Moment: The Framework To Instantly Become Better At Conversation!Listen at 7:26
Conversation becomes more personalized and meaningful as it progresses from small to deep talk.
“small talk is at the bottom. These are topics anybody can talk about. Tailored talk is more exciting, more personalized, more relevant to your interests. Deep talk is the peak of this pyramid.”
Open the episode · Most Replayed Moment: The Framework To Instantly Become Better At Conversation!Listen at 11:13
Conversations should progress naturally rather than remaining in small talk or jumping to deep talk.
“most people stay too long at the bottom, but we also cannot jump to the top. Often you kind of have to do the ritual of climbing to feel like you get there in a natural way.”
Open the episode · Most Replayed Moment: The Framework To Instantly Become Better At Conversation!Listen at 12:10
People should ask more questions to improve their conversations.
“the top line advice to make their conversations better is to ask many more questions”
Open the episode · Most Replayed Moment: The Framework To Instantly Become Better At Conversation!Listen at 13:19
People who ask more questions are more likely to receive second-date invitations.
“People who ask more questions are enormously more likely to get asked on a second date.”
Open the episode · Most Replayed Moment: The Framework To Instantly Become Better At Conversation!Listen at 15:03
Asking one additional question per date can produce another second date across twenty dates.
“you'll convert another date into a second date from just one question per date, according to the data.”
Open the episode · Most Replayed Moment: The Framework To Instantly Become Better At Conversation!Listen at 15:20
Follow-up questions drive most of the benefits associated with asking questions.
“The benefits of question asking are almost entirely driven by the power of follow up questions.”
Open the episode · Most Replayed Moment: The Framework To Instantly Become Better At Conversation!Listen at 16:17
Human brains are wired toward egocentric thinking in conversations.
“Our brains are incredibly, are wired to be egocentric.”
Open the episode · Most Replayed Moment: The Framework To Instantly Become Better At Conversation!Listen at 19:55
More respectful language during police stops reduces conflicts and subsequent infractions.
“the interactions where they were using more respectful language went better. There were less conflicts. They drive away without further infractions.”
Open the episode · Most Replayed Moment: The Framework To Instantly Become Better At Conversation!Listen at 26:50
Mutual engagement is necessary for good conversation.
“Good conversation requires mutual engagement.”
Open the episode · Most Replayed Moment: The Framework To Instantly Become Better At Conversation!Listen at 30:27
The human mind wanders during approximately one-quarter of conversational time.
“The human mind wanders 25% of the time during conversation.”
Open the episode · Most Replayed Moment: The Framework To Instantly Become Better At Conversation!Listen at 30:37
Anyone can become warmer in conversation.
“What I do deeply believe is that anyone can be more warm.”
Open the episode · Most Replayed Moment: The Framework To Instantly Become Better At Conversation!Listen at 32:00
Conversation callbacks signal that someone listened and retained earlier information.
“If I can call back to something we talked about, it shows, I heard you, I was thinking about what you said.”
Open the episode · Most Replayed Moment: The Framework To Instantly Become Better At Conversation!Listen at 32:46
People should end conversations assertively instead of hesitating over the exit.
“There is no right answ. So it's better to just end it. Like, be assertive, walk away, rather than hemming and hawing”
Open the episode · Most Replayed Moment: The Framework To Instantly Become Better At Conversation!Listen at 33:24
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