The Power of Strangers: The Benefits of Connecting in a Suspicious World - Joe Keohane
Category: Self-help
Narrator: Jonathan Todd Ross
Tags: Self-help, Adults
Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group Release date: July 13, 2021 Duration: 12:51:58, In our cities, we stand in silence at the pharmacy and in check-out lines at the grocery store, distracted by our phones, barely acknowledging one another, even as rates of loneliness skyrocket. Online, we retreat into ideological silos reinforced by algorithms designed to serve us only familiar ideas and like-minded users. In our politics, we are increasingly consumed by a fear of people weve never met. But what if strangersso often blamed for our most pressing political, social, and personal problemsare actually the solution?, In The Power of Strangers, Joe Keohane sets out on a journey to discover what happens when we bridge the distance between us and people we dont know. He learns that while were wired to sometimes fear, distrust, and even hate strangers, people and societies that have learned to connect with strangers benefit immensely. Digging into a growing body of cutting-edg
