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ELIF SHAFAK

We are exhausted by anxiety, consumed with anger, our minds and defences all too often overwhelmed.

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ELIF SHAFAK

The moment we stop listening to diverse opinions is also when we stop learning. Because the truth is we don't learn much from sameness and monotony. We usually learn from differences.

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My first instinct as a storyteller is to dig into 'the periphery' rather than 'the centre' and focus my attention on the marginalised, underserved, disenfranchised and censored voices. 

There is a part of me that wants to understa...

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We are made of stories - those that have happened, those that are still happening at this moment in time and those that are shaped purely in our imagination through words, images, dreams, and an endless sense of wonder about the world around us and how it works. 

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MAYA ANGELOU

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

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Social media and group narcissism

We have become bad listeners and even worse learners. 

Nuanced debates are not welcomed anymore, but dualities are exarcebated.

People are more interested in making a point, than learning.

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ELIF SHAFAK

Knowledge requires reading. Books. Indepth analyses. Investigative journalism. Then there is wisdom, which connects the mind and the heart, activates emotional intelligence, expands empathy. For that we need stories and storyt...

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ELIF SHAFAK

Mass destruction doesn't start with concentration camps or gas chambers. It doesn't start with putting marks on neighbours' doors, just because they are 'different' - or imposing law for minorities to carry particular signs or wear certain clothes. Dis...

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ELIF SHAFAK

Feeling systematically unheard, unsupported and unappreciated can make me painfully resentful, and abiding resentment will probably turn me into a reluctant listener.

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ELIF SHAFAK

The truth is, there are plenty of negative sentiments all around and within us - anger, fear, discontent, distrust, sadness, suspicion, constant self-doubt... but perhaps more than anything, an ongoing apprehension.

An ex...

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ELIF SHAFAK

We assume that we are alone are stumbling under their weight while everyone else is unencumbered, getting on with their lives just fine. 

Emotions, we are taught to believe, make us look weak. The less we are capable of addressing...

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ELIF SHAFAK

Now we are universally aware that history can go backwards, that progress is beyond such concerns. Now we are universally aware that history can go backwards, that progress is neither guaranteed nor steady. Democracy is hard to achieve, yet easy to lose; it is an inter...

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About groupthink or social media bubbles

They limit wisdom that connects the mind and the heart, help us reach beyond our mind and engage with others around us.

We must become intellectual nomads that keep moving, keep learning, spend more times in the margins, with the minorities, where real change happens.

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ELIF SHAFAK

Do not be afraid of complexity.

Be afraid of people who promise an easy shortcut to simplicity.

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ELIF SHAFAK

And the biggest irony is that all this is happening at a time when we as humans - regardless of race, gender, religion, class or ethnicity - are supposed to be more connected and empathetic and free than ever before, with far more opportunities at our disposal to expre...

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ELIF SHAFAK

We dont' quite understand how the internet works but we don't want to say that aloud because everyone else seems to be ok with that, so we must accept it too.

More and more it feels that, when it...

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ELIF SHAFAK

Stories bring us together, untold stories keep us apart.

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Powerful words for a time when wars and pandemics create an existential angst that is difficult to coexist with. Shafaks's words nudge us to question our place and our attitude in this world.

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