SHAUNA NIEQUIST

The fear of taking the first step is the main thing that sabotages our dreams, both big and small. It’s precisely in that first step where most people get stuck because fear takes a hold of us. However, if we get going, then our fears will magically dissolve. As ...

• We have to accept it’s something we’re all vulnerable to: it’s easy to look at other people we know that use logical fallacies. It’s much harder to recognize them in ourselves.
• Bad arguments are almost unavoidable if we haven’t taken the time to research both sides of the debate. ...

The theory of shared reality implies that we are most likely to feel closer to each other when we turn our mutual attention to something beyond ourselves.

So the responsibility of keeping the conversation going falls how on the way we engage in the world, cultivating our c...