Conversations

Novelist and writer Francine Prose on hard conversations:

"Sometimes being in a car, looking at the road, not having to make eye contact, is the ideal setting for heavy conversation."

Source: A Changed Man

Good conversation tips:

• “If we had 5 mins left, what would you want to have had covered” gets to the meat earlier

• “Putting aside a list of pros/cons, what’s the one reason you’re doing this?” “Why is that the most important reason?”

• “What would the best version of yourself do”?

• When someone confronts you w/ a problem they have with you

  • What I heard was

I want more of this tone on social media:

“As always, I welcome your input, critiques and rebuttal.

What did I get wrong?”

Whenever there is an argument between two ideas, find the third idea.