How to Talk About Politics

Practicing Human

Cory Muscara

Self Improvement, Health & Fitness, Meditation, Happiness, Mindfulness, Education, Personal Development, Wellness, Mental Health, Personal Growth, Presence, Positive Psychology, Self-improvement, Buddhism

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🗓️ 9 November 2020

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, I'm going to share 3 tips to have more grounded, sane, and unifying conversations around politics. Whether it's on social media, at the dinner table with your crazy cousin, or in a coffee shop with a stranger, there are certain dos and don'ts that will help facilitate a better conversation.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to practicing human the podcast where every day we're getting a little better at life.
0:07.0	I'm your host Corey Miskara and in today's episode we're going to talk about how to have composed, sane political
0:17.6	conversations.
0:19.6	More to come on that in a moment.
0:21.8	First, let's settle in together with the sound of the bells. Okay. Okay, so if you live in the US or if you live on planet Earth, you are familiar that at the time of recording this, which is early mid-November
0:56.6	2020 we are in the middle of election season and it's quite contentious and it's also sad because our country has never
1:07.9	been more divided well at least in my lifetime than it is right now and while I am laughing a bit just
1:18.4	mentioning that we're in this period of time it it also is quite heavy and painful
1:24.4	because it feels just big I don't know how we got here so divided so
1:30.8	separated and one thing I'm finding for divided so separated.
1:32.7	And one thing I'm finding for myself and others
1:37.3	is just the difficulty that can arise in trying to talk about these things,
1:43.6	trying to talk about these issues
1:45.3	when there is such division.
1:48.1	And these conversations can happen over
1:50.9	in social media, and they can also happen in person.
1:55.0	And I'm hearing from a lot of people.
1:57.0	A lot of stress comes up in these conversations
2:00.0	and a lot of uncertainty about just how to go about them.
2:03.4	And so in this episode, I'd like to share three tips
2:08.4	that can help you go into those conversations
2:12.3	with a little bit more grounding and hopefully move
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