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In honor of the time of year and the holidays that a lot of people who are listening are going to be celebrating.

Thanksgiving and Christmas and New Year's and Hanukkah and Kwanza and all the other

religious groups and their holidays.

We wanted to try to tackle the subject that comes up for a lot of people, especially

during the climate in the world

now, which is talking to people with differing views. It is so important to understand how to do

that if it's at all possible. And if someone else who you're trying to deal with makes it impossible,

it doesn't mean you didn't do it well enough or the right way. It just they might not be quite

ready to have the discussion. But let's try to get to some of the heart of it. And the first thing

to try to understand is something called cognitive dissonance. These are opposing viewpoints,

and it creates a lot of discomfort and resistance. It's a psychological theory developed by Leon

Festinger in the 1950s and refers to the mental discomfort or tension that a person experiences

when they hold two or more contradictory

beliefs and values and attitudes at the same time, or when their behavior contradicts

their beliefs or values. So it causes tension because it's a challenge to self-identity,

and there is a fear of being wrong.

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