724 - How to Have Impossible Conversations when facts don't matter! Peter Boghossian

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🗓️ 15 June 2021

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Facts Don't Matter! Over the past year, people are either on this side or another, and they're so into their own beliefs, it's almost impossible to have a reasonable and proper conversation with either side! Do you remember all the impossible conversations that you had with your family or friends? It's always unproductive and doesn't lead anywhere! In this episode, I have Peter Boghossian, an American philosopher, pedagogist, and author, on to talk about the techniques of talking to people that he described in his book, How to Have Impossible Conversations: A Very Practical Guide. 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

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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.
0:16.0	Think about how many impossible conversations you've had with people, even your friends
0:21.0	over the past year.
0:23.2	Like, oh, don't you understand the facts?
0:25.6	Oh, this is fake news.
0:27.3	No, it's not.
0:28.3	These are the facts.
0:29.3	You believe this.
0:31.0	How could you?
0:32.0	You must be an evil bad person or you believe in this.
0:34.7	You must be some kind of lunatic or idiot or whatever.
0:39.5	Think of all the friends lost, family lost, impossible conversations you've had.
0:45.6	How to have impossible conversations, a book by my next guest, Peter Bogosian, fascinating
0:52.0	topic and I learned a huge amount.
0:55.3	And the first thing I learned was facts don't matter.
0:58.6	How true that is, but let's hear the rest.
1:10.1	How to have impossible conversations.
1:12.2	You ever have one of those conversations?
1:14.1	Like, I have this with my kids all the time.
1:16.8	They'll come in and say something like, I don't know, like, rioting is okay in a protest
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