The Awesome Power of "Touchy-Feely" | Carole Robin and David Bradford
10% Happier with Dan Harris
10% Media, LLC
4.6 • 12.9K Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2021
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
We talk a lot on this show about social connection, but in this episode we're going to get super granular on how to actually do relationships better.
Carole Robin and David Bradford taught the most popular elective course at the Stanford Graduate School of Business for a combined total of 75 years. Officially, the name of the course is Interpersonal Dynamics, but everybody calls it "Touchy-Feely." Together they have written the new book, Connect: Building Exceptional Relationships with Family, Friends, and Colleagues.
We dive into the six hallmarks of what they call "exceptional relationships," how to be honest and vulnerable without overdoing it, why the questions "how am I feeling?" and "how are you feeling?" are central to improving our communication, the inevitability of risk when you set out to deepen a relationship, and why meditation is helpful in all of this.
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| 0:00.0 | From ABC, this is the 10% happier podcast. |
| 0:07.6 | I'm Dan Harris. |
| 0:11.4 | Hello, hello, we talk a lot on this show about social connection. |
| 0:15.2 | But my guests today are going to get super granular on how to actually do relationships |
| 0:21.3 | better. |
| 0:22.3 | Carol Robin and David Bradford taught the most popular elective course at the Stanford |
| 0:27.0 | Graduate School of Business for a combined total of 75 years. |
| 0:31.8 | Officially, the name of the course is interpersonal dynamics, but everybody affectionately calls |
| 0:37.2 | it touchy-feely. |
| 0:39.2 | We cover a lot of fascinating ground here, including the six hallmarks of what they call exceptional |
| 0:44.7 | relationships, how to handle conflict well, how to be honest and vulnerable without overdoing |
| 0:50.0 | it. |
| 0:51.0 | Why the questions, how am I feeling and how are you feeling are central to improving |
| 0:55.4 | our communication, the inevitability of risk when you set out to deepen any relationship, |
| 1:02.0 | how to connect across lines of difference, including race and gender, why it's possible |
| 1:06.3 | to have deep relationships with a much broader range of people than you might have imagined, |
| 1:10.9 | how to give and receive feedback, navigating power differentials, and why meditation |
| 1:16.7 | is helpful in all of this. |
| 1:19.1 | David is the Eugene D. O'Kelly, the second senior lecturer in leadership emeritus at |
| 1:25.2 | the Stanford Graduate School of Business Carol, is the former Dorothy J. King lecturer in |
| 1:30.2 | leadership at Stanford. |
| 1:31.8 | Together they have written a new book called Connect, Building Exceptional Relationships |
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