Talking to Strangers ~ quick review

We think we know and understand others better than they could ever know and understand ourselves.  The Illusion of asymmetric insight (the conviction that you know someone better than they know you)  rings every bell in my head.  How often are we sure that we are interpreting the motives, reasons, actions of others-- certain that our assessment of them is capital C Correct?  And as we lean back and reflect upon the self-appointed reasons for their behaviors, we never for a moment ponder how they too are assessing our own motives and reasons.  And then if we did even consider that they might be considering us, we are certain that it is our assertion of them that is RIGHT, not theirs of us.  This is (one of) the mistakes we make with strangers and why so often things break d..o...w...n.  There are many, many other insights that resonated during my reading and then promptly left my brain for a place I wish so very longingly to access.  Inside of there-- within the place of the inaccessible are countless other bits of information that would be interesting for you to know about this book and why you should read it. Or maybe why you shouldn’t read it.  But you should-- stranger that you are to me, person that I (think I) know much better than you know me.  It’s a good one.