{"id":6189,"date":"2016-12-13T15:36:32","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T04:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/narcissismcured.com\/thelovesafetynet\/?p=6189"},"modified":"2021-03-05T14:48:27","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T03:48:27","slug":"better-conversation-intro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/narcissismcured.com\/thelovesafetynet\/better-conversation-intro\/","title":{"rendered":"Better Conversation &#8211; Intro"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>4 Challenges to get Started<\/h2>\n<h3 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Challenge 1:<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Spend at least 30 minutes a day reading something non-fiction that is about the world outside around you (not psychology, philosophy etc.). This might be history, politics, science or local knowledge. See if you can find subjects that will be of interest to the people you regularly have conversations with.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Challenge 2:<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Take time out to make a list of your family\u2019s interests. Not the things you think they should be interested in, but topics that currently engage them. Add these topics to your reading list.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Challenge 3:<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">What really interests you? Give yourself permission to spend time each day exploring any subject.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Challenge 4:<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Take time to listen to gifted storytellers. See if you can notice what techniques they use to engage their audience.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/narcissismcured.com\/thelovesafetynet\/post-series\/better-conversation\/\">Better Conversations Menu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four challenges to get started . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":321,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[334],"tags":[382],"post_series":[371],"class_list":["post-6189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-codependency-self-help","tag-leading-articles","post_series-better-conversation","entry","no-media"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/narcissismcured.com\/thelovesafetynet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/narcissismcured.com\/thelovesafetynet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/narcissismcured.com\/thelovesafetynet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narcissismcured.com\/thelovesafetynet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/321"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narcissismcured.com\/thelovesafetynet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/narcissismcured.com\/thelovesafetynet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/narcissismcured.com\/thelovesafetynet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narcissismcured.com\/thelovesafetynet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narcissismcured.com\/thelovesafetynet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6189"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narcissismcured.com\/thelovesafetynet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=6189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}