Choosing a direction towards what you don’t know
“We want to avoid being drawn toward what we understand. In that direction lies the temptation to summarize and finish.”
In a conversation we can feel the urge to have a purpose in the form of a goal we are trying to reach, and we can feel the urge to know the path to that goal in the form of questions or topics to explore. These urges arise because we believe if we begin unprepared, our conversations would be rambling messes, and a complete waste of everyone’s time. These urges arise because we feel we would be wandering.
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What is Open + Curious?
You talk with others every day, but how often do you intentionally practice the art of conversation? By sharing my thoughts here, I hope to ignite your passion for creating great conversations.
Open + Curious is about discovering what better means for your conversations. You can read, listen and discuss at, https://openandcurious.org/
Hello 👋 I’m Craig Constantine. My mission is creating better conversations to spread understanding and compassion. I want us to go from simply having conversations, to actively creating better conversations.
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