Sublime

Dialogue is not conversation.

El discurso requiere separar la opinión propia de la identidad propia. Los individuos que no poseen esta capacidad discursiva se aferran desesperadamente a sus opiniones, porque, de lo contrario, su identidad se ve amenazada. Por ello, el intento de hacerles cambiar de opinión está condenado al fracaso. No oyen al otro o no lo escuchan. Pero la

A good conversation is not a group of people making a series of statements at each other. (In fact, that’s a bad conversation.) A good conversation is an act of joint exploration. Somebody floats a half-formed idea. Somebody else seizes on the nub of the idea, plays with it, offers her own perspective based on her own memories, and floats it back

Whenever members of an organization come together and have a conversation, there are actually two types of conversation going on. One is manifested in what people are saying publicly. The other is unfolding in each person’s head. Only