Geoff Cohen: The Art of Connecting With People
Guy Kawasaki's Remarkable People
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Talking With Teenagers, Not at Them
The body of research in this area suggests that one of the most important things we can do with teen agers is to talk with them, not at them. Thereis actually research on this showing that when you bring teens into the lab and put them on an mri, in an mri scanner, and have them listen to audio clips of their mother complaining about t their brains shut off. So being lectured at, as colne lewan forecasted, really is not a powerful persuasive device. Wit does work while is conversation. I think that conversation really works.
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