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Different types of communication
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In progress - Nonviolent Communication
My experiences/history
I was very awkward for a long time but I got over it and now I'm a confident talker. Sometimes too confident.
Quotes
from Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World by Cal Newport (published in 2019)
Communication
MIT professor Sherry Turkle, a leading researcher on the subjective experience of technology. In her 2015 book, Reclaiming Conversation, Turkle draws a distinction between connection, her word for the low-bandwidth interactions that define our online social lives, and conversation, the much richer, high-bandwidth communication that defines real-world encounters between humans. (Page 154)
Many people think about conversation and connection as two different strategies for accomplishing the same goal of maintaining their social life. This mind-set believes that there are many different ways to tend important relationships in your life, and in our current modern moment, you should use all tools available—spanning from old-fashioned face-to-face talking, to tapping the heart icon on a friend’s Instagram post.
The philosophy of conversation-centric communication takes a harder stance. It argues that conversation is the only form of interaction that in some sense counts toward maintaining a relationship. (Page 158)