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We're talking about the art of conversation today

Which is

How can that be a podcast, right?

And I think that a lot of people take

the concept of conversation to be just so like what it's a word it's two people talking but I

think when you dive into what it actually is and all the different um you know there's there's

pitfalls in conversation there's misinterpretations there's stuff like that there's proper ways to

move forward and all that but it comes down, let's just start with a baseline definition. What is conversation? You want to start? Do you want me to start? I'll start because I'm sure you're going to have a much better definition. No, I don't know. I mean, if you look at it, surface level conversation is, you know, as individuals, we all have our own ideas,

our own thoughts, and we just want to convey those in a way, whether it's verbal or whether it's

some other kind of medium that we can actually get our thoughts out, right? And we want to have

somebody listen to that and interpret it and understand us, and then at the same time, be willing to grow our understanding.

And that's where conversation is the two-way street, right?

If you're willing to engage in a conversation,

that means not only are you delivering your thoughts,

but you're wanting the person to interpret that and then also give their thoughts

on what they thought about what you just said or delivered in the communication. So to me,

that's what it is. It's just wanting to be understood, I think. I can dig it. I can dig that.

And I think that my definition is very similar. I've always seen

conversation as the ability to build a conduit from one mind to another, right? I think X about

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