Yo, today's QOD is if your mouth is open, you're not learning. Here we go

Welcome back to the quote of the day show. I'm your host Sean Crox and a Sean Crox and calm today

You're gonna learn yet another incredibly important life skill as Celeste Haley shares her 10 best tips for becoming a much better

Conversationalist here Celeste

All right, I want to see a show of hands. How many of you have ever unfriended someone on Facebook because they said something

offensive about politics or religion child care food

And how many of you know at least one person that you avoid because you just don't want to talk to them

You know it used to be that in order to have a polite conversation

We just had to follow the advice of Henry Higgins and my fair lady stick to the weather and your health

But these days with climate change and anti-vaxing those subjects

Are not safe either so this world that we live in

This world in which every conversation has the potential to evolve into an argument where our politicians can't speak to one another

And where even the most trivial of issues have someone fighting both passionately for it and against it

It's not normal

Pew research did a study of 10,000 American adults and they found that at this moment we are more polarized

We are more divided than we ever have been in history

We're less likely to compromise which means we're not listening to each other and

We make decisions about where to live who to marry and even who our friends are going to be based on what we already believe

Again, that means we're not listening to each other a

Conversation requires a balance between talking and listening and somewhere along the way we lost that balance

Now part of that is due to technology the smartphones that you all either have in your hands or close enough that you could grab them really quickly

According to Pew research about a third of American teenagers send more than a hundred texts a day and

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