When Strangers Meet Audiobook (Free)
- Kio Stark
- 2 h 36 min
- Simon & Schuster Audio / Ted
- 2016-09-13
Summary:
Uncover the unexpected pleasures and exciting possibilities of speaking with people you don’t know-how these beautiful interruptions can change you, and the world we share.
When Strangers Meet argues for the pleasures and transformative likelihood of speaking with people you don’t find out. Our lives are increasingly insular. We are in a rush, our minds are down, minds somewhere else, we hear just the voices we already recognize and seldom take your time and effort to see something or somebody new. Speaking about When Strangers Match to strangers pulls you into encounters of shared mankind and creates legitimate emotional contacts. It opens your globe. Passing interactions concrete your relationship towards the places your home is and work and play, they’re gorgeous interruptions in the constant routines of our lives. In luminous prose, Stark displays how speaking with strangers wakes you up.
Threaded throughout are effective vignettes from Stark’s personal lifelong practice of speaking with strangers and documenting short encounters, plus a deep exploration of the dynamics of where, how, and why strangers get together. Ultimately, When Strangers Match explores the wealthy emotional and politics meanings that are conjured up in also the briefest conversations and unexpected cable connections with strangers. Stark makes visible the hidden processes where we determine who to greet and rely upon passing, and the unwritten rules by which these encounters operate. When Strangers Meet teaches readers how to start talking to strangers and contains adventurous challenges for individuals who dare.
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