#198 - Tim Harkness - An Expert's Guide To Mastering Difficult Conversations

Modern Wisdom

Chris Williamson

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2020

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Tim Harkness is a psychologist and an author.

Our ability to communicate is crucial for happiness and social cohesion, yet it seems that the art of having a productive conversation has been lost.

Expect to learn Tim's favourite rules for effective talking, the conversation archetypes, how to diagnose your own communication strategy, why metaphors are a dangerous tool, whether Donald Trump truly is a master communicator and much more...

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0:00.0	Hi friends, welcome back.
0:02.0	My guest today is Tim Harkness and we are speaking about a topic which seems to come up
0:06.4	a lot at the moment how to have good conversations.
0:09.8	It's indicative of the time that everyone is shouting and no one is listening.
0:14.8	So hopefully today Tim with his beautiful South African accent is going to give you some
0:19.4	tips on how you can be a better conversation list.
0:21.8	Our ability to communicate is crucial for happiness and social cohesion and yet it seems
0:27.6	the art of having a productive conversation has been very, very lost, especially in 2020.
0:33.3	So today expect to learn Tim's favourite rules for effective talking.
0:36.9	The conversation archetypes how to diagnose your own communication strategy, whether Donald
0:41.9	Trump is truly a master communicator and much more.
0:46.4	I also love people with South African accents, man.
0:49.4	It's so good.
0:51.4	Tim, Tim Harkness.
0:53.5	I can't do South African very good but he's great.
0:56.7	I changed my Siri to South African, to a South African lady because that's how much
1:01.5	I love the accent.
1:02.8	So speaking to Tim for an hour was wonderful.
1:05.6	In other news, this Thursday is episode 200, shit the bed.
1:12.0	How the hell?
1:13.0	200 episodes has come around this quickly, blows my mind.
1:15.9	But yeah, episode 200, we had tons and tons, literally hundreds of messages with questions
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