Eric Barker on Playing Well With Others

Description

Common advice about relationships contradicts itself, and in this Expert Series course Eric Barker replaces it with what the research supports. The first lessons are about understanding other people. You’ll learn how to make someone easier to read and how to form a more accurate first impression. A third lesson covers detecting lies by watching for mental effort rather than nerves. The rest of the course is about keeping relationships healthy. Lessons cover what deepens a friendship, how to deal with a self-absorbed person you cannot avoid, how to start an argument with a partner so it ends well, why exciting activities keep love alive, and why loneliness has little to do with being alone.

Barker introduces each idea on video. The text follows with the studies behind it and example conversations that show the advice in use.

About the expert

Eric Barker is the author of Plays Well With Others: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Relationships Is (Mostly) Wrong, the book this course is built on. The course also names his first book, Barking Up the Wrong Tree, a bestseller about the science of professional success. Barker presents every lesson on video.

What you’ll be able to do

• Make another person easier to read by changing the setting and paying attention to speech more than body language
• Form a more accurate first impression by considering the opposite and creating distance before deciding
• Detect a lie by asking questions that are easy for a truth-teller and hard for a liar
• Deepen a friendship with time and vulnerability, using Barker’s Scary Rule
• Use empathy prompts with a self-absorbed person, and know when to walk away
• Start an argument with a partner so it ends well, and keep a long relationship alive by doing exciting things together
• Recognize loneliness as a feeling of disconnection and address it by deepening relationships and finding community

Who it’s for

Anyone who wants better relationships at home and with friends, and prefers evidence to folk wisdom.

What’s inside

10 lessons, self-paced:

1. Introduction
2. How to Read People
3. How to Size People Up
4. How to Detect Lies
5. How to Improve Your Friendships
6. How to Deal With Narcissists
7. How to Have Better Arguments With Your Partner
8. How to Keep Love Alive
9. How to Beat Loneliness
10. Conclusion

What you get

• 365 days of access from the date of purchase
• A certificate of completion when you finish the course
• Your place is saved, so you can stop and come back whenever you like
• Works on a computer, tablet or phone

You can also get this course, and every other course in the library, with All Access for $99.99 a year.