What if thinking could be done with others?

The theory of dialog suggests that these situations reflect a series of problems in how we think, for we have learned to think alone. And what I mean here by “thinking” involves the whole of us—our emotions, our ways of feeling in the body, our ideas, and our qualities of character and being.

~ William Isaacs, from Dialogue

Before reading this book, I would have said “alone” is the only way one can think. But now I see that’s just one sort of thinking. That’s the activity done in the lonely interior space of the mind. As soon as I include my body I necessarily need to expand my understanding of thinking—at least some of the time—to include other people. And doing that changes everything.

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