the art of conversation

Conversation as behaviour

 

"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.

'Messages' and conversations

"Markets are conversations … there is no demand for messages, there is a tremendous demand for good conversation."

From the Cluetrain Manifesto circa 1999.

Old hat, some might say.

But if the old hat fits, wear it.