Audiobooks by Robert Biswas-Diener

Radical Listening: The Art of True Connection

Unlock the transformative power of Radical Listening—a profound practice that moves beyond simply hearing words to actively cocreating meaning. In our distracted, divisive world, the transformative power of true listening has never been more essential. Radical Listening is a revolutionary guide to mastering this vital skill from renowned experts Christian van Nieuwerburgh and Robert Biswas-Diener. Moving beyond simply hearing words, their groundbreaking framework teaches you to actively cocreate meaning and connection. Though we spend nearly three hours a day on the receiving end of communication, listening is frequently neglected. We're bombarded by data, digital distractions, and a culture that celebrates talkers over listeners. Radical Listening provides the antidote, equipping you with six core competencies: noticing, quieting, accepting, acknowledging, questioning, and interjecting. Whether you're seeking to improve your leadership, foster more collaborative teamwork, or simply connect more meaningfully with others, Radical Listening offers a powerful remedy. Allow this book to reshape how you experience the world and those around you through the revelatory act of listening fully.

Christian van Nieuwerburgh, Robert Biswas-Diener (Author), Kirby Heyborne (Narrator)

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Positive Provocation: 25 Questions to Elevate Your Coaching Practice

Hone your skills and strengthen your practice with this series of twenty-five fresh and provocative questions for reflection that challenge the conventional wisdom in the coaching profession. Like any established profession, coaching is full of unexamined assumptions. These need to be regularly questioned and tested to keep the profession vital and valuable. Coaches need to engage in the same kind of scrutiny and self-examination that offers such powerful benefits to their clients. In Positive Provocation, coaching thought leader Robert Biswas-Diener asks a series of twenty-five provocative and sometimes playful questions that take a fresh look at some of coaching's most cherished beliefs. What if coaches had agendas? Why are ethics so boring? What's so great about interrupting? Can we trust eureka moments? What if we used less empathy? This is not an attack on the coaching profession-Biswas-Diener writes with a light, conversational, and often humorous touch. These are positive provocations, meant to stimulate your curiosity, engage you with the latest research, and invite you to see your practice with new eyes. Biswas-Diener covers philosophies of coaching, communicating with clients, common coaching concepts, coaching interventions, and a big final provocation: should coaching be informed by science? This book will give you a richer understanding of the coaching process, make you more articulate about your own beliefs, and allow you to feel more engaged with the craft.

Robert Biswas-Diener (Author), Andrew Joseph Perez (Narrator)

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The Upside of Your Dark Side

In The Upside of Your Dark Side, pioneering researchers Todd Kashdan, Ph.D., and Robert Biswas-Diener, Dr. Philos., offer a bold stance on the modern quest for happiness through mindfulness, positivity, and optimism: it’s doomed. Positive emotions can indeed take us far, but it turns out that we need the emotions that make us uncomfortable. Anger makes us creative. Selfishness makes us brave. And guilt is a highly effective motivator. Does that mean we should live our lives as miserable jerks? Of course not. But neither can we spend our lives avoiding large parts of who we are. The key lies in emotional, social, and mental agility, the ability to access our full range of emotions and behavior—not just the “good” ones—in order to respond most effectively to whatever situation we might encounter. Drawing on years of scientific research and a wide array of real-life examples including business, romance, education, parenting, sports, the military, and more, The Upside of Your Dark Side is a refreshing reality check that shows us how we can truly maximize our potential. With an appreciation of our entire psychological tool kit, we become whole—which allows us to climb the highest peaks and handle the deepest valleys.

Robert Biswas-Diener, Todd Kashdan, PhD (Author), Jeff Cummings (Narrator)

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