SYSK Choice: Become a Brilliant Negotiator & Finding Your Purpose in Life

Something You Should Know

Mike Carruthers | OmniCastMedia

Education, Social Sciences, Self-improvement, Science, Health & Fitness

4.5 • 4.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Almost all voice guided apps – like Siri and Alexa – have a female voice. Ever wonder why? This episode begins with the explanation as to why the female voice is favored in most apps. https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/apples-siri-female-voice/story?id=14802733 Are you a good negotiator or would you prefer to avoid negotiation like the plague? Well, the fact is we all negotiate every single day – and a big part of the problem with negotiation is how we approach it. Dan Shapiro is going to give a fresh and rather positive outlook on negotiation and help you become much better at it. Dan is one of the world’s leading authorities on the subject of negotiation. He is the founder and director of the Harvard International Negotiation Program, associate professor in psychology at Harvard Medical School/McLean Hospital and author of the book Negotiating the Nonnegotiable (https://amzn.to/3328Ty8). We tend to use the word “busy” a lot. As in – “I’ve been really busy.” There is a problem with that though. Telling people how busy you are tends to push them away. Listen as I explain why. What is your purpose in life? Maybe you have multiple purposes. If so, that is a good thing according to Victor Strecher author of Life On Purpose (https://amzn.to/334m41x). Victor explains the importance of having a purpose and living a life in harmony with that purpose. It turns out when you do, amazing things can happen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:44.0	Today on something you should know, why does Siri and almost every other voice-guided app have a female voice?
0:53.0	Then, strategies to be a much better negotiator, even when you're dealing with someone who seems irrational.
1:00.0	I don't believe in irrationality most of the time.
1:03.0	And I think at the end of the day, each side has some rationality for doing what they're doing.
1:09.0	You might not agree with it, but the first and most perspectives are toward reconciliation and trying to appreciate that other side's perspectives.
1:16.0	Also, why you should probably stop telling people how busy you are all the time.
1:21.0	And if you don't have a purpose in life, there are some great reasons to get one.
1:26.0	If we can help people find purpose in life, we now know that we can help them live longer, reduce their risk of heart disease and stroke, do their risk of depression, even have better sex.
1:38.0	All this today on something you should know.
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1:57.0	Hi, and welcome to another Saturday edition of something you should know.
2:02.0	I don't know if you've ever thought much about this, but when you get a new iPhone, at least in the United States,
2:09.0	Siri on that iPhone has a female voice. In fact, when you think about it, really almost all GPS or other voice-guided apps and programs have a female voice by default.
2:22.0	So why is that? Well, there are a lot of reasons, actually. For one, studies show that people, especially women, prefer to hear a woman's voice.
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