![]() ![]() Effective communication depends on emotional feedback from others and much of our most important communications over the eons by necessity focused on danger: Is that sound in the forest coming from something that wants to eat me? If so, I need to decisively warn the other humans.īut then we added, in just a few short decades, many new ways to communicate and our brains haven’t been able to keep up. ![]() We humans have learned to communicate over hundreds of thousands of years, evolving from cave dwelling days of grunts and gestures to modern day. Human communications developed over thousands of years, but digital communications is new ![]() That’s a huge problem that leads to boredom, lack of clear communications, and perhaps even our increasingly polarized political world.įortunately, Nick Morgan has been studying these issues for the past several years and he writes about ways to break through and communicate well in his new book from Harvard Business Review Press releasing today Can You Hear Me? How to Connect with People in a Virtual World. But the nuance, emotion, and detail that helps us to understand deeply is mostly lost in our virtual world of email, telephone, webcams, text messaging, and online content. Humans are hardwired to connect with each other using many different in-person cues including tone of voice, a lift of an eyebrow, a shake of the head, and other things we don’t quite understand like air pressure changes. ![]()
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