Part of the TED series: When Strangers Meet. Our lives are becoming increasingly isolated. We are in a rush, with our heads down and our minds elsewhere. We only listen to the voices we already recognize and rarely bother to experience something or someone new. When Strangers Meet advocates for the pleasures and transformative possibilities that arise from communicating with people we don't know. Communicating with a stranger unites us in a common humanity, is a source of creative energy, opens up our world, establishes our connection with the spaces where we live, work, and play, and is a beautiful interlude in the steady routines of our lives. Communicating with strangers awakens us. But who is a stranger? Many of us have the ingrained belief that strangers are dangerous. This idea paralyzes us and prevents us from connecting with the wider world. Exploring the rich meanings that emerge from these fleeting intimacies, Stark makes visible the hidden processes by which we decide whom to trust in these moments and the unwritten rules by which these encounters operate. When Strangers Meet teaches readers how to start talking with strangers, incorporating adventurous challenges for those who dare.
Manufacturer
- Author
- Kio Stark
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Language
- English
- Subtitle
- How People you don't Know can Transform you
- Cover
- Hardcover
- Number of Pages
- 128
- Publication Date
- 2016
- Dimensions
- 12.7x17.8 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781471156090
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