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Gillian Sandstrom on the psychology of kindness

'almost everyone you care about was once a stranger. Aside from the people who have been in your life since you were born, every relationship has a getting-to-know you process where you transition from unknowns to knowns...Strangers can bring so much meaning to everyday moments, in big ways and small ones'

#strangers #socialLife #life #conversation #kindness

https://www.vox.com/advice/484072/how-to-talk-to-strangers-small-talk

The secret to successful conversations with strangers

Turn new people into new friends.

Vox

'We walk around thinking we’re the only ones who are anxious and that we don’t know what to do and that they don’t want to talk to us. But everybody’s feeling that way. It takes one person to be brave'