Beyond Small Talk

How to Talk to Someone Whose Opinions You Can’t Stand

It’s a family gathering, not a debate you need to win

Saul Austerlitz
Forge
Published in
4 min readNov 21, 2019

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Illustration: Dan Woodger

This story is part of How to Talk to Anyone, Forge’s guide to moving past the chitchat and truly connecting.

EEveryone knows one: the person who loves to rehash recent elections when all you want is the…

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Saul Austerlitz
Forge
Writer for

Author of Generation Friends: An Inside Look at the Show That Defined a Television Era +4 more. Work published in the NY Times and many others. Teacher at NYU.