No matter what we believe about the real world and our current belief systems, the questions we ask ourselves act as a transmutation of how we see ourselves. What is the one question you could ask ...

Every day we engage in conversations rooted in ritual and social norms. With no conscious effort, we shift from one role to another. One minute, I’m a husband happily cooking breakfast with his wife.

As humans, we’re talking to each other constantly. With all that practice, we must be pretty good at it—right? Not exactly. As a professor at Harvard Business School and author of Talk: The Science of ...

I don’t love talking with strangers. I’m an introvert at heart, and making an effort to engage in social interaction ...

Not every question is a good question, and some habits we carry into everyday conversation do more harm than good. When silence creeps in during an interaction, the instinct for many people is to ...

What Types Of Questions Develop Conversations? When I hosted my radio show, I learned quickly that a yes or no question could stop a conversation in its tracks. If I asked, "Do you like your job?" and ...