ha, well, I'm not sure it would be quite right to out her. I always feel a bit weird about publicizing ostensibly private conversations, which is why I try to keep people anonymous :) Also, I forgot the title tbh lol
Honestly, I don't know if I have a good answer to that question. We're unreliable narrators of our own lives. Which is sort of, indirectly at least, a case for religion. It gives us an external anchor outside of our own self-deception.
This really connected with me. Oftentimes when taking a taxi and the driver tries to strike up a conversation by asking me what I do, and I say I lecture in Politics, the wall of resistance comes crashing down. Sometimes the conversations are fascinating, which is why I generally engage as you never know what you'll uncover. But it's a risk as for every really interesting dialogue there are at least 2 which you just nod along to as you see the emails pile up on the phone.
this sounds like the start of a romcom…
Please, do bore us with her responses!
Hmmmm. And the title of her book is . . . ?
Link to her book please!
ha, well, I'm not sure it would be quite right to out her. I always feel a bit weird about publicizing ostensibly private conversations, which is why I try to keep people anonymous :) Also, I forgot the title tbh lol
I was interested to know what followed,
how do we come to know what we want?
Honestly, I don't know if I have a good answer to that question. We're unreliable narrators of our own lives. Which is sort of, indirectly at least, a case for religion. It gives us an external anchor outside of our own self-deception.
This really connected with me. Oftentimes when taking a taxi and the driver tries to strike up a conversation by asking me what I do, and I say I lecture in Politics, the wall of resistance comes crashing down. Sometimes the conversations are fascinating, which is why I generally engage as you never know what you'll uncover. But it's a risk as for every really interesting dialogue there are at least 2 which you just nod along to as you see the emails pile up on the phone.
Sam, belatedly, glad the piece resonated! yes, I think you might on to something with the 2:1 ratio ha
Just my experience but yeah it's usually quite a risk that it'll not be fun nor interesting!
I reckon it’s probably this: https://www.amazon.com/Joy-Uber-Driving-Wild-Self-Love/dp/1631525670
ha!
If I had been in that Uber, I hope I would have had the guts to say, "I'm sorry, but I really don't want to have a conversation."
but it was a great conversation! you just have to make that initial decision to be open to it, productivity be damned
belatedly, thanks so much for the kind note. glad the piece resonated to that extent!