Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection by Duhigg Charles

Author:Duhigg, Charles [Duhigg, Charles]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Business, Leadership, Self Help, Science, Sociology, Psychology, Communication, Non-Fiction, Personal Development
ISBN: 9780385697750
Amazon: B0C5V8LRSF
Goodreads: 157984941
Publisher: Doubleday Canada
Published: 2024-02-20T08:00:00+00:00

THE WHO ARE WE? CONVERSATION

AN OVERVIEW

In a meaningful conversation, we bring not just ourselves to the discussion, but everything that brought us to this moment: Our histories and backgrounds, our families and friendships, the causes we believe in and the groups we love or deplore. We bring, in other words, our social identities. Many conversations focus explicitly on these identities: Who we know in common, how we relate to each other amid our communities, what we think about our relationships and how they influence our lives.

The social justice movements and tragic examples of violence of the past decade have made it painfully clear that inequality and prejudice touch many lives—and some more than others. Talking about our differences is important if we are to begin to move beyond these blights.

The next two chapters explore social conversations and how they can succeed, even amid discomfort. Chapter 6 examines how to take hold of an evolutionary instinct—to trust those who are like us, and distrust those who aren’t—and use it to connect even when our backgrounds and beliefs set us apart. Chapter 7 studies how the most difficult conversations—about systemic forms of injustice, for example—can be elevated if we think more intentionally about how they ought to occur.

“It is not our differences that divide us,” wrote the poet and activist Audre Lorde. “It is our ability to recognize, accept and celebrate those differences.” The Who Are We? conversation explores how our social identities make us, and the world, a richer place.

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