Robert Granat
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"Life in Sweden is so holistically fulfilling and tranquil that their heady psychological fiction is centered around the horror of being American. Gagged." — 14 hours, 56 min ago
"Life in Sweden is so holistically fulfilling and tranquil that their heady psychological fiction is centered around the horror of being American. Gagged." — 14 hours, 56 min ago
We Spread
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“Seventeen when she died. It’s like you said, Penny, all families are complicated.” Did I say that?
Excellent writing, as it casts doubt on the premise, which is familiar, but only just. If positions you squarely on the toes of the narrator, aligning you more closely with her point of view, and granting you the sense of sudden disorientation and subtle—yet looming—dread. The stilted verbiage also lends to the fractured narrator voice.
“Miscommunication occurs when people are having different kinds of conversations. If you are speaking emotionally, while I’m talking practically, we are, in essence, using different cognitive languages. (This explains why, when you complain about your boss—“Jim is driving me crazy!”—and your spouse responds with a practical suggestion—“What if you just invited him to lunch?”—it’s more apt to create conflict than connection: “I’m not asking you to solve this! I just want some empathy.”)”
― Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
― Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
“This refusal of gender critics to read the texts they oppose—or to learn how best to read them—makes sense only if reading is taken to be an uncritical exercise. And if an uncritical reading or reception of the texts they deem authoritative is what they defend, they more purely illustrate what is properly called an ideological or dogmatic position, that is, one that refuses questions, challenges, and a spirit of open inquiry. This attitude is part of the broader anti-intellectual trend marked by its hostility to all forms of critical thought.”
― Who's Afraid of Gender?
― Who's Afraid of Gender?
“Reading is not just a pastime or a luxury – but a precondition of democratic life.”
― Who’s Afraid of Gender?
― Who’s Afraid of Gender?
“During any conflict—a workplace debate, an online disagreement—it’s natural to crave control. And sometimes that craving pushes us to want to control the most obvious target: The person we’re arguing with. If we can just force them to listen, they’ll finally hear what we’re saying. If we can force them to see things from our point of view, they’ll agree we’re right. The fact is, though, that approach almost never works. Trying to force someone to listen, or see our side, only inflames the battle.”
― Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
― Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
“John F. Kennedy told students at American University in 1963, five months before he was assassinated. “In the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s future. And we are all mortal.”
― Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
― Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
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