Make specific time for conversations
Summary
- Make specific time for conversations, not necessarily in aplace that requires money such as a restaurant
Details
- if you automatically meet in a bar or restaurant you may end of spending a lot of money
References
Quotes
Conversation is surely one of life’s greatest free relishables, and is certainly worth devoting time to. It too benefits from fuller engagement – people become more conversationally nimble and generous when they fully immerse themselves in the pleasure of talk. Help this happen simply by putting aside telephones and other devices of distraction*. You might also like to question the dominance of the restaurant or bar as default catch up venue. As the wining and dining budgets of many of our friends increased with age, your authors started suggesting alternatives to these spending-obligatory social occasions (given that a single event could easily vaporise a quarter of our weekly income). We soon noticed that the conversations we had while walking along the creek, or warming our hands round mugs of tea at a friend’s kitchen table, were generally more engrossing than the distracted ‘consumption-accessorised’ conversations. A couple of people really can have a hell of a good time saying particular words in particular orders – BYO brain, no accessories required.
Related
- Good conversations lead to higher feelings of happiness
- Deeper conversations result in a better connection
- A good conversation leads you to think new thoughts
- When having a conversation, give your full attention to the person
- The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard. Some of the best talkers are, on this account, the worst company - William Hazlitt
- Questions that lead to deeper conversations
- Avoid phubbing - phone snubbing to have better conversations
- Food, I find, has a unique ability to facilitate conversation - Keith Ferrazzi