Extinction by elizabeth callback. Arthur alan alda is our guest on booktv. His latest book, here it is if i understood you, would i have this look on my face . My adventures in the art and science of relating and communicating. Mr. Alda read the book and i hope you can help me understand a couple of scenes that run through your book. Number one is empathy. Why is that a theme of your book guest i found as i studied the subject which really seriously for the last couple of years while i was writing the book i found it kept coming up more and more and i began to realize the things that i had learned that seem to be essential, good communication, often boil down to empathy. At first i wasnt crazy about that because i didnt trust toward empathy. When i first began to hear about empathy it started to show up in our culture an awful lot a couple of decades ago and when i started to think about it i thought this sounds like a very soft gooey new way an emotionbased thing that im not sure i be
Celsius over a hundred years, it does create pockets of these heat waves. Sreenivasan all that and more, on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. Supporting social entrepreneurs and their solutions to the worlds most pressing problems skollfoundation. Org. The lemelson foundation. Committed to improving lives through invention, in the u. S. And developing countries. On the web at lemelson. Org. Supported by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org and with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Sreenivasan we are now on the eve of seeing a Senate Proposal for health care, including replacing the Affordable Care act. Republ
Celsius over a hundred years, it does create pockets of these heat waves. Sreenivasan all that and more, on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. Supporting social entrepreneurs and their solutions to the worlds most pressing problems skollfoundation. Org. The lemelson foundation. Committed to improving lives through invention, in the u. S. And developing countries. On the web at lemelson. Org. Supported by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org and with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Sreenivasan we are now on the eve of seeing a Senate Proposal for health care, including replacing the Affordable Care act. Republ
That run through your book. Number one, is empathy. Why is that a theme of your book . Guest i found as astudied the subject, which ive been doing for decades now, but really seriously for the last couple of years while i was writing the book i found that empathy kempt kept coming up more and more and i realized the thing its learn that seemed to be essential to good communication often boiled down to empathy. I didnt at first i wasnt crazy about that idea because i didnt trust the word empathy. Started to show up in our culture an awful lot a few years ago, couple of decades ago. And when i started to think about it, i thought, this sounds like a very soft, gooey, newagey emotion based thing that im not sure i believed what is being transmitted by that notion. And then the more i worked on it, the more i realized that for me my definition of empathy, the way i think about empathy, is not the way everybody thinks about it. There are many meanings that emthe has for different people. Fo
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