ARE YOU TALKING TOO MUCH?

Only 3 in 10 Americans socialise on a daily basis. So how good are we ACTUALLY at talking to each other anymore? Vanessa Van Edwards believes we’re living through a “connection crisis”, where conversations are becoming harder, more awkward and less satisfying, while more of our interactions are moving away from real face-to-face conversation. Vanessa is a behavioural researcher, international bestselling author and instructor at Harvard University whose work studies how people communicate, connect and understand each other. And she said something to me early in this conversation that really st