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When strangers meet : how people you don't know can transform you / Kio Stark.

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TED Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., c2016.

Interpersonal relations.

Social interaction.

Watch Kio Stark's TED talk "Why you should talk to strangers."

9781501119989 (hc.)

107 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 105-107).

Who is a stranger? -- Fleeting intimacy -- A world made of strangers -- The mechanics of interaction.

Discover the unexpected pleasures and exciting possibilities of talking to people you don't know - how these beautiful interruptions can change you, and the world we share. Our lives are increasingly insular. We are in a hurry, our heads are down, minds elsewhere, we hear only the voices we already recognize and rarely take the effort to experience something or someone new. Talking to strangers pulls you into experiences of shared humanity and creates genuine emotional connections. It opens your world. Passing interactions cement your relationship to the places you live and work and play, they're beautiful interruptions in the steady routines of our lives. Stark shows how talking to strangers wakes you up. Threaded throughout are powerful vignettes from Stark's own lifelong practice of talking to strangers and documenting brief encounters, along with a deep exploration of the dynamics of where, how, and why strangers come together. An exploration of the rich emotional and political meanings that are conjured up in even the briefest conversations and unexpected connections with strangers.

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