I am getting to a point in my life where I am thinking a lot about what
I am doing, why am I doing it, and how am I going about doing what I
do. For example, if I look at my schedule for the next month, I am in
France, Brazil, Mexico, Eastern and Western Canada, the United States
and Argentina. I love the work I am doing, and this kind of travel
regimen didn’t used to bother me too much. I have my travel routines
down pretty well and rarely have problems—although it still takes about
3 extra hours at each end to deal with security and transportation to
and from an airport. So what’s the problem? [
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I was watching the CBS show “Sunday Morning” on the weekend and it had
a segment on the dying art of conversation. The point was that with all
our technology and almost real-time connections available with email,
handhelds and social networking sites, people seem to have lost the
ability to have conversations. It was a thought-provoking and, I think,
mostly true observation about what is happening to us. The show also
showcased a new book by Stephen Miller called
Conversation: A History of a Declining Art. The program drove home the fact that we may be communicating more than
ever, but we’re conversing less and less. Various people were
interviewed and all agreed that we’re losing (perhaps have already
lost) what may be one of the most basic and pleasurable aspects of
life.[
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