• Samuel Johnson’s Timeless Wisdom on the Art of Conversation and Knowledge Acquisition

       We talk to people non-stop every day: we chat with other parents when we pick up and drop off our children, with clients, bosses and colleagues at work, with our children and spouses at home, and with our parents when we have time. We’re all master conversationalists – a lot of the time is cliche, polite, and most of the time beating around the bush, probing, dodging. An article in The New Yorker said: “Our society is full of bad talk these days, in part because it provides more interesting content on the Internet and on TV. Talk is not chat (too noncommittal), not debate (too much) arguing), not…

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