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Book

If I understood you, would I have this look on my face? : my adventures in the art and science of relating and communicating

Author

Alan Alda

Call Number

  • 153.6 A357 (OSH)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York : Random House, [2017]

Physical Description

xviii, 213 pages ; 25 cm

Contents

  • Relating: it's the cake
  • Theater games with engineers
  • The heart and head of communication
  • The mirror exercise
  • Observation games
  • Making it clear and vivid
  • Reading minds: Helen Riess and Matt Lerner
  • Teams
  • Total listening starts with where they are
  • Listening, from the boardroom to the bedroom
  • Training doctors to have more empathy
  • My life as a lab rat
  • Working alone on building empathy
  • Dark empathy
  • Reading the mind of the reader
  • Teaching and the flame challenge
  • Emotion makes it memorable
  • Story and the brain
  • Commonality
  • Jargon and the curse of knowledge
  • The improvisation of daily life.

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