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3.72 AVERAGE
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Realistic in what a hard conversation had do and most importantly what it cannot do.
The book gives windows into people discussing these topics. There are phrases highlighted to help find the words in the conversation. But the book is more about why you should have hard conversations then how to have hard conversations. But reading how others have done so gives courage.
The book gives windows into people discussing these topics. There are phrases highlighted to help find the words in the conversation. But the book is more about why you should have hard conversations then how to have hard conversations. But reading how others have done so gives courage.
Some interesting things to consider. The main point of the book is that we will gain a lot if we push ourselves to have hard conversations. Not a lot I didn’t know already but good reminders and some good ideas for questions and techniques.
This book should be mandatory course in high school, dedicating a semester to study it chapter by chapter.
I sort of expected a self-help book but this book is more about why hard conversations and conversations in general are helpful. Many good examples and good stories. Very thoughtful.
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Let’s Talk About Hard Things by Anna Sale is a book about five ordinary subjects that most of us have a problem talking about with ease. They are death, sex, money, family and identity, all topics that are part of everyone’s lives, at one time or another. The author discusses openly, in a witty and interesting way, how to go about speaking up. Anna Sale, whose podcast deals with the same subject matter, is the narrator of the audiobook version of this title and she does so with kindness, experience and at times humour. I enjoyed Let’s Talk About Hard Things very much and would recommended it highly.
On Audible so can go back and finish one day.
A book worth reading. A couple notes I took from it:
• “radical acceptance is a form of cognitive behavioral therapy developed in the early 1990s. ‘It’s about managing your emotions, and facing the reality of things… Hardships are unavoidable. So, if we know that, we can get to the action part quicker and we can start doing something with it… not telling students to just concede or surrender. Instead, it’s learning to say Even if I don’t like this or I think it is unjust, I have to deal with this reality’ ” (p.148).
• “Marginalization is one term often used for these identities, but another way to think about it is in terms of belonging. This framing creates more space for the movement between contexts: You may be marginalized in one setting and empowered in another. Noticing when and how that’s changed can tell you a lot about how identity functions in your life. Where do you belong? Among whom? Who belongs where you belong, and who is an outlier?... focus on belonging creates an important distinction from inclusion… ‘Inclusion suggests you’re joining something that’s already there… Whereas belonging suggest that you’re co-creating the thing you belong to. You’re co-creating it’” (p. 210).
• “radical acceptance is a form of cognitive behavioral therapy developed in the early 1990s. ‘It’s about managing your emotions, and facing the reality of things… Hardships are unavoidable. So, if we know that, we can get to the action part quicker and we can start doing something with it… not telling students to just concede or surrender. Instead, it’s learning to say Even if I don’t like this or I think it is unjust, I have to deal with this reality’ ” (p.148).
• “Marginalization is one term often used for these identities, but another way to think about it is in terms of belonging. This framing creates more space for the movement between contexts: You may be marginalized in one setting and empowered in another. Noticing when and how that’s changed can tell you a lot about how identity functions in your life. Where do you belong? Among whom? Who belongs where you belong, and who is an outlier?... focus on belonging creates an important distinction from inclusion… ‘Inclusion suggests you’re joining something that’s already there… Whereas belonging suggest that you’re co-creating the thing you belong to. You’re co-creating it’” (p. 210).
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