How to have conversations with people who hate you? (with Dylan Marron)
How to Be a Better Human
TED
4.1 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 20 September 2021
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
If you are online and especially if you're on social media, it’s likely you’ve engaged with people whose opinions are different from your own. While those conversations can sometimes be informative, they often spiral into a vitriolic whirlpool of hurtful or even threatening comments. Dylan Marron is the creator and host of “Conversations with People Who Hate Me”, a podcast where he facilitates conversations and tries to explore the humanity of people online. In today’s episode, Dylan talks about why we shouldn’t forget that there are always people on the other side of our screens and shares what he’s learned about apologies, forgiveness, and the benefits of taking the time to explore and establish our personal boundaries. You can listen to Dylan’s podcast wherever you’re listening to this. To learn more about "How to Be a Better Human," host Chris Duffy, or find footnotes and additional resources, please visit: go.ted.com/betterhuman
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| 0:00.0 | Ted Audio Collective. |
| 0:02.0 | Audio Collective. |
| 0:04.0 | I'm Chris Duffy, |
| 0:10.0 | I'm Chris Duffy and you're listening to |
| 0:12.0 | how to be a better human. |
| 0:14.0 | If you are online and especially if you're on social media, it can be really easy to forget |
| 0:19.1 | that there are people on the other side of the screen and I think that that is one of the main reasons |
| 0:24.8 | that I'm such an enormous fan of today's guest. |
| 0:28.6 | Dylan Merrin is the creator and host of conversations |
| 0:31.4 | with people who hate me. |
| 0:32.8 | It's a podcast where he facilitates conversations |
| 0:35.4 | and tries to explore the humanity of people online. |
| 0:38.1 | I think that Dylan is incredible. |
| 0:39.7 | I love him as a person and I think that his work is so important and fantastic. |
| 0:44.0 | I don't want to give too much away about what we talked about, but we did end up kind of questioning |
| 0:48.8 | the ideas that we think we have around reconciliation. We also talked about how maybe debating isn't as productive |
| 0:55.4 | as we think it can be, and how apologies and forgiveness, they're not this one and done |
| 1:00.8 | instantaneous big climactic moment. |
| 1:03.7 | All of that is to say that I am really excited for you to hear this conversation and I am so |
| 1:07.7 | thrilled that we got to have Dylan as a guest on this show. |
| 1:10.7 | We're going to be right back after this short break. |
| 1:14.0 | And we're back. |
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