Talking to strangers

Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know - Kindle edition by Gladwell, Malcolm. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know.

When we were little, our parents always told us not to talk to strangers. And now that we’re grown up, we don’t need anyone to tell us not to talk to strangers because it’s been embedded in our…

“Defaulting to truth is a problem. It lets spies and con artists roam free.” Barely a day goes by without talking to a stranger in today’s society. It could be in a grocery store, a drive-thru or on Twitter. Most of the time, the encounters go very well. However, there are times when they don’t. Talking to Strangers looks specifically at the time when a police officer encountered Sandra Bland and their “talk” led to her arrest and subsequent suicide. What went wrong between these strangers?…

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The Subway Social Club is on an unthinkable quest: to make sane New Yorkers talk to complete strangers during their commutes.

In these breathtaking intellectual adventure stories, covering everything from criminology to ketchup, job interviews to dog training, Malcolm Gladwell looks under the surface of everyday life to show how the most ordinary subjects can illuminate the most extraordinary things about us and our world. 'Masterpieces in the art of the essay' Steven Pinker, The New York Times 'Beautiful ... brings together the writing that made Gladwell the extraordinary figure he is today ... one of the…

Sometimes talking to a stranger feels better than talking to someone you know

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