163. Is Your Audience Ignoring You? How Authenticity Creates Connection

Think Fast Talk Smart: Communication Techniques

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Communicating, Influence, Career Skills, Career, Business, Education, Leadership, Careers, Communication, Career Growth, Public Speaking, Language Learning, Improv

4.7 • 711 Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

How acceptance and authenticity can transform all of our interactions.

What’s the key to experiencing deeper connection in our communication? According to Alan Alda, it starts with acceptance — of others and ourselves.

"Connecting, communicating, and clarity," Alda explains, "they're all based on hearing what the other person is really saying; letting the person be real; accepting them.” As an acclaimed actor, writer, director, and author of If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?, Alda has spent much of his career exploring how acceptance enables us to be our authentic selves, leading to better communication and truer connection. “There’s nothing more engaging than the real you,” he says.

Also the founder of the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science at Stony Brook University, Alda strives to help scientists and health professionals communicate more effectively with the public. “Science can't do its work unless it gets funded. And it can't get funded if people don't understand what the scientists are trying to do,” he says.

In this episode of Think Fast, Talk Smart, Alda and host Matt Abrahams discuss how acceptance and authenticity can transform all of our interactions, from complicated science conversations to everyday communication.

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Chapters:

(00:00) - Introduction
(02:01) - Motivation for Communication
(04:01) - Avoiding Communication Pitfalls
(06:17) - The Role of Clarity and Vividness
(07:24) - Reflection in Communication
(08:14) - Connection in Conversations
(09:29) - Reframing Communication Anxiety
(11:09) - Asking Meaningful Questions
(12:04) - Matt’s Communication Journey
(13:51) - The Art of Storytelling
(16:18) - The Final Three Questions
(18:25) - Conclusion

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1:02.7	Communication is a vivid, visceral experience, a true connection between you and the other person.
1:13.6	I'm Matt Abraham's, and I teach strategic communication at Stanford Graduate School of Business. Welcome to Think Fast, Talk Smart, the podcast.
1:21.1	Today I'm excited to speak with Alan Alda. Alan is an acclaimed actor, writer, and director. He is also the founder of the Alan
1:28.8	Alda Center for Communicating Science at Stony Brook University, where he has dedicated his
1:34.3	efforts to helping scientists and health professionals communicate more effectively with the
1:38.7	public. He is the author of several books, including his latest on communication,
1:42.8	If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on
1:45.6	My Face? And finally, he hosts an awesome podcast called Clear and Vivid.
1:52.2	Alan, thank you for being with me today. I so look forward to our conversation.
1:56.9	I do too, Matt. Thank you. Thanks for talking with me. Yeah, shall we get started? Yeah, let's go.
2:02.2	Excellent. So you've dedicated a large part of your career to helping technical, scientific folks
2:08.2	communicate more clearly. Can you share with us what drives that energy and passion for this topic?
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