Dr. Colman Noctor

And that for me, and I've said this many times, we've talked about it a lot, that those bonds of community have never needed to be stronger than they are now.

But all of this stuff tends to potentially weaken it.

Yeah, we talked the last time about independence and what we had in the 80s and we were going off on our bikes and everything else.

And we had a thing back then, don't talk to strangers, because it was a kind of a safety thing.

My campaign is talk to strangers, because I think teenagers and young people

don't have maybe the skill set of listening and telling stories and being able to carry those kind of conversations off the cuff that aren't prepared.

And in the world of work and in the world of relationships and connections, you have to be able to do two things, listen and tell a story.

And if we don't practice that and like the idea of how many

encounters in your life came from a just a happenstance of the two of us were in the one place at the one time.

They asked me the time I answered it.

You know, if we take those out and even those and the other thing is like people don't understand the importance of micro gestures.

Right.

And I am a big component of

If you're working from home all day and you don't see anyone from the start of the night, you didn't have to commute, you didn't have to queue for your coffee and you see the convenience of all that.

But don't underestimate seeing someone who says, morning Ray, or the barista who says, enjoy that.

Those tiny little things, those micro gestures have a cumulative effect of making us feel connected.

Yeah.

How do you get to big talk without small talk?

You'll be intrusive if you did that.

Small talk has a function.