Conversation!!! It's Frakken Important!

“To get to the next level of greatness depends on the quality

of the culture, which depends on the quality of the relationships,

which depends on the quality of the conversations.”

“Everything happens through conversations!!!”

~ Judith E. Glaser

Trust at the Moment of Contact

I discovered this lady on CBS This Morning. You can catch the news segment here:

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50153340n

What makes a conversation successful?

Experts say there is a right way and a wrong way to talk with people. Psychologist Bernardo Carducci, director of the Shyness Research Institute at Indiana University Southeast and Judith Glaser, CEO of Benchmark Communications and author of "Conversational Intelligence: How Great Leaders Build Trust and get Extraordinary Results," discusses how to learn the appropriate skills.

Of course, I found this following bit, about how Facebook can make us sad and unsatisfied, on my Facebook newsfeed. How's that for irony, lol ;)

And according to Dr Glaser, in the above news segment, Facebook is fine for a part of your daily dose of conversation, however it should absolutely NOT be your only source of conversation. Because apparently,

Facebook Makes Us Sadder And Less Satisfied, Study Finds

http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2013/08/19/213568763/researchers-facebook-makes-us-sadder-and-less-satisfied?utm_source=NPR&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=20130820

Yeah yeah, this all ties into the idea that upward social comparison is not a good thing, but downward social comparison can make for a boost in the the whole, "ya know, my life's not that bad" boost towards contentment.