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Following this research, other studies on humans and primates have also shown that contagious yawning occurs more frequently among friends than strangers.
And what Brian Eno came to realize was, yes, we need to run the stupid experiments, we need to deal with the awkward strangers, we need to try to read the ugly fonts.
Sabo translates to "strangers' quarters."
Maybe the people that my childhood taught me to label as strangers were actually friends waiting to be discovered.
And then, over the Internet, they're going to invite complete strangers to come sleep in their homes.
No one in their right minds would invest in a service that allows strangers to sleep in people's homes.
Because we've all been taught as kids, strangers equal danger.
She must have been in one of those moods where she likes to mess with strangers.
You're forced to be intimate with complete strangers in a short amount of time; the self-discipline, the self-maintenance.
It's a powerful thing, getting in a room with complete strangers and reminding ourselves of our humanity, and that self-expression is just as valuable a tool as a rifle on your shoulder.
I'm obsessed with talking to strangers.
The really sad thing is, in many parts of the world, we're raised to believe that strangers are dangerous by default, that we can't trust them, that they might hurt us.
But most strangers aren't dangerous.
I know it sounds a little counterintuitive, intimacy and strangers, but these quick interactions can lead to a feeling that sociologists call "fleeting intimacy."
"Strangers communicate better than spouses!"
So how is it possible that we communicate so well with strangers?
So now that we know that talking to strangers matters, how does it work?
People from Denmark tell me that many Danes are so averse to talking to strangers, that they would rather miss their stop on the bus than say "excuse me" to someone that they need to get around.
Strangers might ask each other for a sip of water.
We tend to meet disclosure with disclosure, even with strangers.
When you talk to strangers, you're making beautiful interruptions into the expected narrative of your daily life and theirs.
If you don't talk to strangers, you're missing out on all of that.
We spend a lot of time teaching our children about strangers.
Truly extraordinary altruists' compassion extends way beyond that circle, even beyond their wider circle of acquaintances to people who are outside their social circle altogether, total strangers, just like the man who rescued me.
A hundred years ago, people would have thought it was ludicrous how normal and ordinary it is for people to donate their blood and bone marrow to complete strangers today.
As societies become wealthier and better off, people seem to turn their focus of attention outward, and as a result, all kinds of altruism towards strangers increases, from volunteering to charitable donations and even altruistic kidney donations.
And I don't know exactly why this is, but I think it may be that we now just know so much more about the suffering of strangers in distant places, and so we now care a lot more about the suffering of those distant strangers.
But what's clear is the kinds of changes we're seeing show that the roots of altruism and compassion are just as much a part of human nature as cruelty and violence, maybe even more so, and while some people do seem to be inherently more sensitive to the suffering of distant others, I really believe that the ability to remove oneself from the center of the circle and expand the circle of compassion outward to include even strangers is within reach for almost everyone.
Now, when you view trust through this lens, it starts to explain why it has the unique capacity to enable us to cope with uncertainty, to place our faith in strangers, to keep moving forward.
He was perplexed at how a company that depends on the willingness of strangers to trust one another could work so well across 191 countries.
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