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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Today, many of us inhabit online echo chambers, which now drive increasingly extreme group polarization.
Chapter 3: Close divides and mend rifts through careful strategic dialogue.
Chapter 4: The initial steps for effective strategic dialogue are preparation and listening.
Chapter 5: There are five barriers that can hinder a successful dialogue, and the first one to overcome is indeed ego protection.
Chapter 6: Two further barriers to successful dialogue are team loyalty and comfort.
Chapter 7: The fourth barrier to effective dialogue, misinformation, can be a difficult challenge to overcome.
Chapter 8: The fifth barrier to effective dialogue is worldview protection, which may need multiple steps to overcome.
Description
Talking Across the Divide (2018) offers a useful guide on how to engage in constructive dialogues with people who hold opposing ideas or beliefs. By using these tools, you can avoid unhelpful arguments and conduct meaningful conversations that allow both sides to become better informed – and perhaps even come to a common understanding.
Who Should Listen
- Anyone hoping to restore relationships broken over differing opinions
- Liberal-minded people with conservative friends and family, or vice versa
- People who would like to argue less