How to talk about politics: A survival guide for relationships

“American politics has often been an arena for angry minds.” Richard Hofstadter, The Paranoid Style in American Politics Many of you are right now losing friends, fracturing relationships and disowning family because of politics. And it doesn’t end on November...

“So, what do you do?”

“So, what do you do?” This is often the standard question we are confronted by or that we fall back upon when meeting someone new. There is nothing wrong with being curious about this, especially if you have reason to be genuinely intrigued, yet the...

Conversation and Flânerie

We spend much of our lives in a virtual world, traversing the online plains. Microsoft’s early tagline, “Where do you want to go today?” captured that mood. That seems almost quaint now, given that the online landscape might better be described as a...

Carl Jung, the Self and Conversation

Conformity is one side of a man, uniqueness is the other. Carl Jung In dabbling with some of Jung’s theories around the Self and its drive to individuation, it occurred to me that the capacity for conversation to lead us to personal revelations and growth had...