Sometimes when tasks really need to get done or ideas discussed, a phone call is so much more effective than an email or text. Give it a try next time you're in a complicated situation at work.
. As much as I’m invested in working with Chinese colleagues, this invitation seemed a bad fit; philosophy is not my strong suit, and I immediately doubted if I could offer something useful. After a few hours of trying to respond by email, I decided to arrange a Zoom call with the graduate student who had invited me on behalf of his professor.
To be sure, there were still moments in the call of misunderstanding — but I could easily respond to his confusion with a change in tone, an explanatory statement, or a clarifying question. It would have taken a dozen emails to accomplish what we did in fewer than 30 minutes of real-time communication.
Emboldened by this encounter, I picked up the phone and called a colleague also immersed in promoting psychotherapy in China about a project I’d had simmering on a back-burner for a while. To my pleasant surprise, she said yes! Then I had to involve a third key person on my end and find a price for this project that would be agreeable to us all. I picked up the phone again. To my good luck, she answered, and I proposed my project to her.
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