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Northwestern University just launched the Litowitz Center for Enlightened Disagreement, a real-world institution devoted to "research-backed approaches to cultivating open-mindedness, identifying one’s own cognitive biases, working collaboratively with others despite disagreement and more." In this episode, David McRaney details his time as a resident of the Center, teaching students how to ask questions that activate a person's introspection, and then fol…
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Disagreement is not the problem of our day. It's the affective polarization that is associated with disagreement.
“you might get as many, maybe even more positive points if you get something wrong but continue to click through those articulations of I want to know why I am wrong and can you show me a credible source so that I might know more by the time I'm done with this game.”
“instead of trying to push away or erase tension, the question and the energy should be focused on how do we remain human in the midst of it?”
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