2024-04-24
38 分钟The Economist.
Hello.
Communication.
It's something you do all the time.
Communication is fundamental to being human and when we 're engaged in it,
our brains are working hard, releasing floods of chemicals such as dopamine, serotonin and oxytocin.
Depending on what you're saying or being told, your blood pressure and levels of stress might even go up.
Or down.
If it 's done well, communication allows us to connect with others at a level that 's about much
more than just sharing information.
Scientists have found that when people talk to each other properly,
their pulses, facial expressions, and even patterns of activity in their brains can synchronize.
But if talking and communicating are such basic human things,
why does it sometimes feel like the world is so bad at it on so many levels?
On issues ranging from climate change to abortion,
vaccines to gun control, communication between different sides of a debate can often
feel like it 's broken down completely.
Our guest today has some answers.
Charles Duhigg is a journalist and the author of a new book, Super Communicators.
In our conversation, Charles tells me what we can all learn from the communicators who do it best.