Adulthood: Revisited
Episode 53: How to Improve Your Communication With a Board Game?!?!
August 18, 2020
My A:R Family, welcome back! Los dias son mejor contigo!!! I'm super rejuvenated and excited for what's coming ahead with the podcast and some other projects I've got going on. That mini-break I took did the body good, and I encourage you to do something similar! Getting to today's episode, what if I told you that a simple board game can improve your communication skills manifold almost immediately? This lesson came from this mini-trip I took. Some friends brought a game called, "Codenames." In this game, a series of cards with a word on the face are placed on the table. Someone is then designated to call out one word clues to help your team guess the card they are alluding to. While the game is super fun, what's really interesting is, literally, seeing the different thought processes and interpretations going on at the same time. Five people heard the same one word, one number clue, yet 5 different inferences are reached. What's really cool about this, and how I found it applies more readily in my life, is to see how people in my life think. I played this game with my girlfriend, and almost immediately, I could see how she was thinking, how she was creating associations between the target card and her clues. Armed with this kind of information can really help to reduce miscommunication, conflict and tension. Think about it in business. If you can understand how someone thinks about a proposal, how they make associations, you can create better offers or communicate much more effectively. What's also really revealing is self-awareness: my communication makes sense only to me. Knowing that, though, I can put more effort into understanding how the person I'm talking with communicates, receives information, and processes it. Play more, grow more! This is the Adulthood:Revisited Podcast. Codenames on Amazon

My A:R Family, welcome back!

Los dias son mejor contigo!!!

I'm super rejuvenated and excited for what's coming ahead with the podcast and some other projects I've got going on.

That mini-break I took did the body good, and I encourage you to do something similar!

Getting to today's episode, what if I told you that a simple board game can improve your communication skills manifold almost immediately?

This lesson came from this mini-trip I took.

Some friends brought a game called, "Codenames."

In this game, a series of cards with a word on the face are placed on the table.

Someone is then designated to call out one word clues to help your team guess the card they are alluding to.

While the game is super fun, what's really interesting is, literally, seeing the different thought processes and interpretations going on at the same time.

Five people heard the same one word, one number clue, yet 5 different inferences are reached.

What's really cool about this, and how I found it applies more readily in my life, is to see how people in my life think.

I played this game with my girlfriend, and almost immediately, I could see how she was thinking, how she was creating associations between the target card and her clues.

Armed with this kind of information can really help to reduce miscommunication, conflict and tension.

Think about it in business.

If you can understand how someone thinks about a proposal, how they make associations, you can create better offers or communicate much more effectively.

What's also really revealing is self-awareness: my communication makes sense only to me.

Knowing that, though, I can put more effort into understanding how the person I'm talking with communicates, receives information, and processes it.

Play more, grow more! This is the Adulthood:Revisited Podcast.

Codenames on Amazon