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How to have a more meaningful social life, with Priya Parker

Doing It Right with Pandora Sykes

CHAPTER

The Role of the Host in a Dinner Party

If a dinner party breaks out into kind of a full-scale row, is it the host's responsibility to break it up? How much time do you have? I often think about gathering almost metaphorically like a painting and I'm not a painter. Some amount of creative tension, some amount of playful, bantering or jockeying helps kind of gives life to a gathering. Do you think gatherings always need to be fruitfully adversarial?

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