Sports Conversation Starters for Your Workweek
May 31, 2020
People have different opinions, life experiences, points of view, desired outcomes, reactions and ways of dealing with things.
We see that playing out in different ways around the country.
It takes practice and intentionality to not just talk through differences, but to hear them.
Practice starts in day-to-day interactions, that involve less stress and less incendiary topics. Practice starts with your small talk and it can start with a sports conversation. Sports fans disagree all the time about unimportant things like a manager’s decision to pinch-hit in the 8th inning, a play-call on third down, a lead driver pitting with two laps to go in a NASCAR race.
Sports is more than stats and scores. It can be a way to practice listening and disagreeing so that you’re prepared to do that in bigger moments when there are more important things to talk about.
