"There is danger in having too few people in your life with whom you can move beyond small talk. The smallness of all your talk will make you small in turn."
Something I spend too much time worrying about, and I've had a lot of time over the last year to worry. How can one go about changing this?
I am sorry I have gone so long without replying to this, Nick. I'd say there's no "one trick" exactly but really, just finding places online where you can talk to people regularly helps so much. I have Twitter obviously for public stuff but I'm in several Facebook groups and, these days most significantly, the Liberal Currents Discord. Through all of these things I have ended up connecting to people who I now talk to individually almost every single day, and some of them at least a few times a week. I talk to them in DMs or on WhatsApp or what have you. And we really get into it on several topics, and a lot of the time I'll have something I'm thinking about but unsure of and I'll ask a bunch of them their perspective. In short, I don't have an easy answer other than to start seeking out those places and developing those relationships.
"There is danger in having too few people in your life with whom you can move beyond small talk. The smallness of all your talk will make you small in turn."
Something I spend too much time worrying about, and I've had a lot of time over the last year to worry. How can one go about changing this?
I am sorry I have gone so long without replying to this, Nick. I'd say there's no "one trick" exactly but really, just finding places online where you can talk to people regularly helps so much. I have Twitter obviously for public stuff but I'm in several Facebook groups and, these days most significantly, the Liberal Currents Discord. Through all of these things I have ended up connecting to people who I now talk to individually almost every single day, and some of them at least a few times a week. I talk to them in DMs or on WhatsApp or what have you. And we really get into it on several topics, and a lot of the time I'll have something I'm thinking about but unsure of and I'll ask a bunch of them their perspective. In short, I don't have an easy answer other than to start seeking out those places and developing those relationships.