Handling Conflict Right with Amanda Ripley

We Can Do Hard Things

Treat Media and Glennon Doyle

Relationships, Education, Self-improvement, Society & Culture

4.8 • 42.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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330. Good vs. High Conflict: Amanda Ripley On Engaging Effectively Conflict expert and investigative journalist, Amanda Ripley, delves into the complex nature of conflict and how it shapes our lives. The discussion challenges the conventional negative view of conflict and explores how 'good conflict' can lead to growth and progress. Discover: -The difference between ‘high conflict’ and ‘good conflict’; -How to avoid the trip wires that lead to high conflict; -The best tool to connect with someone you disagree with; and -The four main stories behind every conflict. About Amanda: Amanda Ripley is an investigative journalist and author. Her most recent book is High Conflict, which chronicles how people get trapped by conflicts of all kinds—and how they get out. Her previous books include The Unthinkable, and The Smartest Kids in the World, a New York Times bestseller which was also turned into a documentary film. IG: @ripleywriter @thegoodconflict

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0:00.0	Welcome to We Can Do Hard Things. I think that by the end of this hour we will all know how to do life a little bit better because life is about if nothing else
0:21.0	life seems to me to be about conflict and all different kinds of conflict.
0:29.1	You guys are laughing, is it not?
0:30.3	I think it is.
0:31.3	No. No.
0:32.3	It's been my experience, but I just didn't know about that. Yeah, it's no, but like conflict, I mean it in all different ways. I don't mean it in like it's about progress through the meeting of two different ideas, even when it's your own self a new idea
0:46.2	and an old idea inside of yourself I think conflict is how we grow in a trillion
0:50.4	different ways and nobody teaches us how to do it better.
0:54.0	I think maybe what we're going to try to do here is redefine conflict.
0:58.0	Because conflict for me is negative.
1:00.0	It's like I want to stay away from conflict.
1:02.0	I'm conflict of
1:03.3	voidant. So I think we're going to talk about I don't know.
1:07.0	Okay. Yeah, how conflict is good. Yeah. And not bad, but the right kind of
1:11.3	conflict is good. Yeah. And then the bad kind of conflict is good. Yeah.
1:13.0	And then the bad kind of conflict, very bad.
1:16.0	Let's stay away from that.
1:18.0	Here's how to spot it.
1:19.0	Here's how to get out of it.
1:20.0	But good conflict.
1:21.0	That's our lane, y'all.
1:22.0	That's where things get done.
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