These tips from the pros will teach you how to talk to anyone you encounter, from your family to your co-workers to the barista who makes your morning cup of Joe What do a snake charmer, an FBI ...

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One of my favorite scenes in the movie The Joy Luck Club is when the young daughter asserts to her mother, "I'm my own person!" and the mother, bewildered, thinks "When did she become her own person!?

Learning how to get better at small talk might not seem like much of a conversational superpower. Arguably everyone’s least favorite part of socializing, surface-level chitchat can be awkward, ...

Masculinity is often defined by dominance, stoicism, physical strength, and the ability to provide. It has, perhaps, been even more defined by what it is not: soft, sensitive, emotional, feminine, or ...

I grew up in a family of talkers who drove our teachers crazy. I remember sitting in my English 102 class during college with just two weeks left in the semester. My professor looked at me and said, ...

A recent study from Empower reports that 62% of people simply don’t talk about money. And 43% would rather talk about politics, while 32% prefer to talk about death over money. Even in a day and age ...

Talking to your partner about sex isn’t always easy—especially if you want to change things up. In an ideal world, you’d feel free to talk to your partner about anything. Unfortunately, we live in a ...

Suicidal thoughts—either your own or someone else’s—are no doubt an enormously difficult topic of conversation. Widespread discomfort around the subject of suicide often stems, in large part, from ...

In the 1970s a young gorilla known as Koko drew worldwide attention with her ability to use human sign language. But skeptics maintain that Koko and other animals that “learned” to speak (including ...

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