704 - Why are we attracted to HIGH CONFLICT situations & How do we get out from it? With Amanda Ripley

The James Altucher Show

James Altucher

Society & Culture, Talk Radio, Writer, Philosophy, Comedy, Chess, How To, Entrepreneurship, Jay, James, The James Altucher Show, Altucher, Author, Jay Yow, Education, Jay The Engineer, Business, James Altucher

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2021

⏱️ 89 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Do you feel like you had to keep engaging in an argument on Twitter without knowing who they are and what their agendas are? Do you ever lose friends or family members over a single argument and disagreement? What is High Conflict? What is Positive Conflict? How do we avoid it and get ourselves out from those conflicts? In this episode, I have on Amanda Ripley, American journalist and author of the new book, High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out, to talk about all the stories about people are losing their minds over a single argument. And why now more than ever that we have more and more conflict every day? My new book Skip The Line is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever you get your new book! Join You Should Run For President 2.0 Facebook Group, and we discuss why should run for president. I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltucher.com/podcast. Thanks so much for listening! If you like this episode, please subscribe to “The James Altucher Show” and rate and review wherever you get your podcasts: Apple Podcasts Stitcher iHeart Radio Spotify Follow me on Social Media: YouTube Twitter Facebook Share Embed

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.
0:06.8	This is the James Altiger Show.
0:12.8	Today on the James Altiger Show.
0:16.5	Why is everyone arguing with each other?
0:18.6	Like, I did this the other day on an Instagram Live.
0:21.8	Let me know if this past year because of a single disagreement with somebody where you
0:27.1	thought X and they thought the opposite of the acts it might be Trump or spy might be
0:31.3	about the pandemic, vaccines, whatever.
0:34.2	Did you lose a friend over that argument?
0:36.4	Essentially everyone said yes.
0:38.7	And so why does it happen?
0:40.2	A brand new book, High Complex by Amanda Ripley, goes over story after story of just how
0:45.7	people just lose their minds when they get into these complex.
0:49.1	Why are these complex now bigger than ever?
0:52.3	And how to avoid it and how to basically rise and become better as a result of the fact
0:57.8	that other people are in these conflicts.
0:59.6	Here to talk about it is the author herself, Amanda Ripley.
1:16.0	So Amanda Ripley just wrote perhaps the most important book on the planet right now.
1:22.1	High conflict, why we get trapped and how we get out.
1:26.0	Amanda, welcome to the show.
1:28.0	Thanks so much for having me.
1:29.0	I'm glad to be here.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from James Altucher, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of James Altucher and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.