2023-11-28
19 分钟Research from neuroscience shows that communication builds a shared reality.
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A fundamental capacity that humans have is to engage in conversation.
We create connection and shared realities.
My name is Matt Abrahams and I teach at Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Welcome to think fast, talk smart, the podcast today, I really look forward to speaking with Shane Omara Shane is a professor of experimental brain research at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, and the director of the Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience.
He has written a number of books.
His latest is called Talking Heads, the new science of how conversation shapes our worlds.
Welcome Shane.
I'm super excited to chat with you.
Thank you, Matt.
I'm delighted to be speaking with you.
All right, let's get started.
One of your earlier books is entitled a Brain for Business, a Brain for Life.
How insights from behavioral and brain science can change business and business practice for the better.
If you were to pick one actionable insight from your book that our listeners could deploy to change the businesses they work for for the better, what would it be?