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Talking to Strangers Episode 3

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The Book Interrupted women share their personal journals while reading “Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know” by Malcolm Gladwell. So many things to talk about with this book in the group chat: default to truth, relationships, oppression, the Holy Fool and more.  

Discussion Points:

  • Personal journals
  • The illusion of asymmetric insight - do you think you know more about someone else than they do about you?
  • The Holy Fool
  • Do you default to truth?
  • Relationships and red flags - do you see the truth when there are signs that they are lying?
  • Data versus interactions - how much does personal interaction change the way you interpret data?
  • How does race and gender oppression affect sentencing and assessment of situations?
  • Was this book upsetting to you?
  • Group enhancements - do you follow the group?
  • Love and marriage

    • Mentioned on this episode of Book Interrupted:

    Book Interrupted Website 

    Book Interrupted YouTube Channel

    Book Interrupted Facebook Book Club Group

    Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know by Malcolm Gladwell

    Malcolm Gladwell Books

    Revisionist History

    Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari

    Untamed by Glennon Doyle

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