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Most people think of conversations as cooperative endeavors where two people are working together to exchange information. But Deborah Tannen has spent her career documenting how conversations are also performances — rituals laden with hidden rules about status, connection, and identity. When those hidden rules collide, we don't just miscommunicate; we wound each other without ever knowing why.

Hidden Brain
1d ago

Bullying is not conflict. It's not a debate, it's not criticism, it's not humor that you're too sensitive to take well. It is a deliberately targeted, serial, escalating pattern of attacks carried out by multiple people, and it's intended to destroy a person's reputation and their ability to contribute.

2d ago

We're so focused on the content of our conversations that we forget that the way we communicate — whether we speak up or stay silent, whether we text or talk — shapes the quality of our lives and relationships.

2w ago

Most of us think about what we say to others. We think about whether our words might hurt or please them, whether we're saying the right things at the right time. But we rarely think about how we listen. We assume we're doing it fine, or well enough. Yet listening is one of the most powerful things we can do for another person.

2mo ago

You're not the same person with your friends as you are with your co-workers or your kids. So who are you, really?

3mo ago

If you see your neighborhood as an amenity rather than like as a place in which like many people live and have to live coexisting lives, including people who are very different from you, make different amounts of money, people who look differently than you, then like that is a political perspective that is, you know, projected onto the world, and the dog is just a lens at looking at it.

3mo ago

In a courtroom full of untrustworthy, unreliable people all fighting with each other, did anyone even have a reputation left to lose?

3mo ago

We are actively as a society trying to avoid friction at all costs. It's not just in our art, but it's also in the way we move about the world. It's about the way we interact with our loved ones. It's the way we avoid having tough conversations and calling things out as they are.

4mo ago

I would ride my moped on the turning lane of this highway 12 months a year to go to my family-owned catering hall where these lavish affairs would happen. So I saw human nature, people at their most nervous, brides, grooms, mother of the bride, father of the groom, like you saw people at their most intense.

5mo ago

Every day we hear about nations, different groups of people struggling to get along. Humanity seems unable to overcome its differences. But what can we learn from more unusual examples of strange bedfellows?

6mo ago

If you think that you will immediately be cut down in your society, you don't actually go out and hunt. You actually don't go out and bring back the the the big deer or whatever you're hunting the bacon. You don't bring home the bacon in the first place. You don't even try because you're so worried about this tall poppy syndrome in your society.

6mo ago

Underscored — save the words that stop you in your tracks.

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