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Survey people found conversing to see what kind of conversation they are having, and their rating of it on a wonderfulness scale.

The wonderfulness scale could go from Get me out of here to Yawning to Wonderful to This is excruciating but I want to stay and help to Ecstatic.

:- Doug.

We are becoming architects of conversation.

:- Doug.

Would love to go further; this far is good.

:- Doug.

Could we develop a checklist of three or five questions to map each conversation before we set off? Perhaps a check-in for pressing joys or pains that keep us out of this conversation. Perhaps a market place of queries for this conversation. Perhaps a till later place.

:- Doug.

Might we design our conversation before we have the conversation? What are the patterns of this conversation? What would make it productive, beautiful, profound, whatever words we choose for our particular qwoan this time?

For instance, what subjects will we touch? How do we want to leave this conversation? What would make it satisfying for us both and all?

Can we be that deliberate, that open, about what we want? It is worth the experiment.

:- Doug.

I am thinking that the task is refining.

:- Doug.

How shall we design this conversation?

:- Doug.

To do human better
Do conversation better

:- Doug.

Progress requires surprise!

:- Doug.

When I go into my shoulder therapy session, first they have me wash my hands; then they warm me up with the arm-bike. Same thing in the practice of conversation: first we wash out the crud by writing; then we warm up by attending our heart beat. Then we are ready.

:- Doug.

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