The Staircase Hidden in Conversation
Growth Occurs Between Words
A philosopher discovered that certain conversations created invisible steps beneath the speakers’ feet. Honest dialogue lifted them slightly higher each time. Defensive words caused the staircase to crumble. People never noticed themselves ascending, only that their perspective gradually changed. Wisdom, it turned out, wasn’t spoken—it was built collaboratively, sentence by sentence.
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