EVERY HUMAN WANT'S THESE 3 THINGS
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Brief Summary
Conversation is essential for connection, love, and emotional health.
Key points
- The Three Human Desires. We all want to be understood, chosen, and loved. Conversation is key to fulfilling these desires.
- Conversation's Impact on Health. Good conversation boosts your immune system and emotional health.
- Social Health vs. Physical Health. We often neglect our social health, which is critical to emotional well-being.
Transcript
There's three things that every human wants. We want to be understood, we want to be chosen, and we want to be loved. The only way to get those three things is conversation. Conversation is the vehicle to get what you want. If you want a promotion, and you can chat with your boss where they connect with you, you're more likely to be thought of for that promotion. If you want to meet your soulmate, you have to have deep connected meaningful conversation to truly get to know each other. I think conversation is the missed longevity hack. If you are great at conversation, and you can call a friend and immediately bypass that small talk, and you laugh together, and you have mutual
aha moments, and you feel understood, your immune system is better. You feel better. You have better endorphins. You have more energy. I think that the mistake that we have made is we think of conversation is extra, sort of put it second. I know leaders focus on this a lot, where they're focused so much on their idea, on their technology, on their business, but they forget about the human element. And I think we have to start thinking about conversation almost like going to the gym. We focused a lot on our physical health, but our social health is critical to our emotional health. Conversation, I think, is a skill to learn. I don't think it you're born with it or you're not. I
think you can learn to be good at conversation, and it's the one skill that keeps on giving.
