Best Of: The Problem With Politeness And The Matter With Manners

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🗓️ 3 May 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

We are all – to some degree – stressed. And that can affect just how much we feel like saying hello to that person on the street or holding the elevator for the person we see around the corner.

We discuss whether small gestures of manners and etiquette matter anymore.

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0:00.0	Let's sit and think for a minute.
0:12.9	How many strangers have you said hello to today?
0:17.2	How many people have you held the door open for?
0:21.0	Or when was the last time you brought a thank you card to someone?
0:25.6	If you've been thinking about whether you have polite manners, you're not alone, we've
0:29.5	been thinking about it too and many of you shared your thoughts.
0:33.1	I believe we are less polite.
0:35.4	I wager that we as a culture are less polite.
0:38.6	About manners and being polite, I do think there is a lack of it.
0:43.4	I 100% know that our manners have gone down the drain.
0:47.4	I think it's not hard to see that we are less polite.
0:51.2	I'm Jen White.
0:52.2	You're listening to the 1A podcast where we get to the heart of the story.
0:56.0	We had a listener reach out to us because he noticed, well the same is all of you.
1:00.5	We don't really do many of these things anymore.
1:03.8	After the break, we bring him on the show to talk about it.
1:06.3	Stay with us.
1:13.3	Let's meet our first guest, Stuart, is a listener from Virginia.
1:16.6	He sent us an email with his thoughts on manners last month and he drains us today to talk
1:21.3	about it.
1:22.3	Stuart, welcome to 1A.
1:23.3	Thank you, Jen, for having me.
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