Talking to strangers: Intention, competence, and opportunity...

Talking to strangers: Intention, competence, and opportunity

The framework identifies obstacles and strategies to promote conversations between strangers, focusing on intention, competence, and opportunity, and suggests directions for future research.

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Encounters with strangers can be a humbling reminder of the vastness of the world and of each other, the impossible-feeling truth that each one of us contains an entire universe of inner life and a singular perspective, that as a species we have an incredible capacity for kindness, cruelty, courage and creativity.

Sophie McBain • The big idea: why we should spend more time talking to strangers

We don’t start conversations because we’re bad at predicting how much we’ll enjoy them. We underestimate how much others want to talk; we underestimate how much we will learn; we underestimate how quickly other people will want to go deep and get personal.

David Brooks • How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

Good conversations have lots of doorknobs Good conversations have lots of doorknobs

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