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306 - I Never Thought of it That Way - Mónica Guzmán (rebroadcast)

You Are Not So Smart

You Are Not So Smart

Science, Psychology, Brain, Business, Mental Health, Culture, Neuroscience, Mind, Health

4.61.8K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

This episode’s guest is Mónica Guzmán, the author of I Never Thought of It That Way – a book with very practical advice on how to have productive conversations in a polarized political environment via authentic curiosity about where people’s beliefs, opinions, attitudes, and values come from. It's also about how to learn from those with whom we disagree by establishing the sort of dynamic in which they will eagerly learn from us as well.

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0:49.5

So precisely the types of the tactics and distancing that a lot of people thought was the way to be a good person is undermining

1:14.4

our ability to persuade each other to be good people. You know, even if whoever we disagree with

1:21.0

has the wrong idea, shaming them or distancing them or trying to be a deterrent by putting our relationship on the chopping

1:30.0

block is not going to work.

1:36.7

That is the voice of Monica Guzman, our guest in this episode, who is the author of the book.

1:44.1

I never thought of it that way.

1:46.2

How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times.

1:51.6

A wonderful book with very practical advice on how to have better conversations in a polarized political environment from both sides and how to have better conversations

2:03.2

in general. In short, how to learn from those with whom we disagree and how to establish the

2:10.2

sort of dynamic in which they will eagerly learn from us as well. And she should know because she is the senior fellow for public

2:20.2

practice at Braver Angels. What is that? Here's Monica. So Braver Angels is the largest

2:26.3

cross-partisan organization working to depolarize America. So we're taking the biggest darn

2:32.2

mission you can imagine and actually giving it a shot.

2:35.4

You're really trying to save the world.

2:37.0

They really are.

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