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Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know by Malcolm Gladwell

4.0

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As with all of Gladwell's writing Talking To Strangers is both easy to follow and captivating. He has a knack for simplifying complex situations and always makes a solid attempt at trying to see the causes and conditions that lead to any given situation. In the case of Talking To Strangers his focus his held firmly on our inability to communicate with each other. I can understand why some readers would find aspects of this book troubling, but if we can take anything away from this book it is that the world is a troubling place, mainly because we as humans inhabit it and on the whole we do a pretty shitty job of communicating with each other. It serves as the reminder we all need, that we need to be less wrapped up in our own selfish lives, show compassion to others and remember that we're all connected and that EVERYTHING we do has a cause and effect.