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If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?: My Adventures in the Art and Science of Relating and Communicating,Used
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Awardwinning actor Alan Alda tells the fascinating story of his quest to learn how to communicate better, and to teach others to do the same. With his trademark humor and candor, he explores how to develop empathy as the key factor.Invaluable.Deborah Tannen, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Youre the Only One I Can Tell and You Just Dont UnderstandAlan Alda has been on a decadeslong journey to discover new ways to help people communicate and relate to one another more effectively. If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face? is the warm, witty, and informative chronicle of how Alda found inspiration in everything from cuttingedge science to classic acting methods. His search began when he was host of PBSs Scientific American Frontiers, where he interviewed thousands of scientists and developed a knack for helping them communicate complex ideas in ways a wide audience could understandand Alda wondered if those techniques held a clue to better communication for the rest of us.In his wry and wise voice, Alda reflects on moments of miscommunication in his own life, when an absence of understanding resulted in problems both big and small. He guides us through his discoveries, showing how communication can be improved through learning to relate to the other person: listening with our eyes, looking for clues in anothers face, using the power of a compelling story, avoiding jargon, and reading another person so well that you become in sync with them, and know what they are thinking and feelingespecially when youre talking about the hard stuff.Drawing on improvisation training, theater, and storytelling techniques from a life of acting, and with insights from recent scientific studies, Alda describes ways we can build empathy, nurture our innate mindreading abilities, and improve the way we relate and talk with others. Exploring empathyboosting games and exercises, If I Understood You is a funny, thoughtprovoking guide that can be used by all of us, in every aspect of our liveswith our friends, lovers, and families, with our doctors, in business settings, and beyond.Alda uses his trademark humor and a wellhoned ability to get to the point, to help us all learn how to leverage the better communicator inside each of us.ForbesAlda, with his laudable curiosity, has learned something you and I can use right now.Charlie Rose
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