How to Have Impossible Conversations when Facts Don't Matter! Peter Boghossian

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🗓️ 10 July 2024

⏱️ 85 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.

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0:00.0	You know what? It's election season and guess what? Everybody is annoying right now. You know why? It's not that their opinions are annoying. I could care less
0:17.3	But everybody wants to know your opinions on everything and you know what it's a dangerous time right now. You could have opinions about who should be president. You could have opinions about Israel. You could have opinions about Ukraine. And you see people had opinions and like, okay, my friend has this opinion, I have a different opinion.
0:34.8	That's not true anymore.
0:36.4	Now people will hate you for your opinions, whether you're on the left or the right or whatever.
0:41.9	And even worse, nobody ever believes that you're just not interested
0:46.1	that you're neutral like I've written for the past 15 years what I think of the
0:51.8	presidency heck I've written I'm even running for 15 years what I think of the presidency.
0:52.7	Heck, I've written, I'm even running for presidents
0:56.1	and people say that's impossible for you to be neutral
0:59.6	or not have an opinion on Joe Biden and Donald Trump. If you go to FEC.gov, I decided I could completely not have an opinion if I run for president myself. So I filled out all the people work and I'm running for
1:14.1	president officially not seriously really but still to the point where if anyone
1:19.8	asked my opinion I could just say I don't like either of them because I'm running
1:22.3	against them.
1:23.5	So anyway, it's very hard to have difficult conversations, which is why I'm so glad my friend
1:30.0	Peter Bagosian wrote a book, How to have impossible conversations. And this is a
1:35.0	is a book, how to have impossible conversations.
1:36.0	And this is valuable stuff to listen to during election time.
1:38.5	Here he is.
1:39.2	This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.
1:48.0	This is the James Altager show.
1:57.0	How to have impossible.
2:02.0	How to have impossible conversations. You ever have one of those conversations?
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