Conversation as behaviour

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March 18, 2011

"Conversation is a meeting of minds. It doesn’t just exchange facts but transforms them … doesn't just reshuffle the cards, it creates new cards." Theodore Zeldin

I've been thinking a lot about Behavioural Economics lately. Hasn't everyone...?

It occurs to me that conversations, or at least some conversations, are a creative act; an act (ie behaviour) which creates/conditions other behaviour.

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I think John Shotter had this idea a long time ago, unfortunately few people understood what he was talking about

Posted by: Paul | March 21, 2011 at 01:32 PM

...and Shotter nicked it from Mead. Probably some stoneage geek thought of it first!

Posted by: Sheila ‎ | March 21, 2011 at 01:33 PM

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