How to Talk to Insufferable Ideologues - Featuring: Peter Boghossian
The Political Orphanage
Andrew Heaton
4.9 • 1000 Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2020
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Peter Boghossian says, "Talking to a person with unshakable belief commitments is like playing chess with someone whose only piece is a hammer." In his book "How to Have Impossible Conversations" he discusses steps we can take to better communicate with people we disagree with. If you've ever walked away from a conversation feeling like you got dragged into a fight, or presented compelling evidence to an unbudging thinker, this episode will change your life!
Season 2, Ep. 31
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the political orphanage helping you sort out politics through critical thinking and civil discourse |
| 0:14.8 | instead of finding new and innovative ways to hate people. |
| 0:18.0 | I'm going to talk to Dr. Peter Bogosian today who is the author of How to Have Impossible Conversations and also a philosophy |
| 0:26.8 | professor at Portland State University. |
| 0:28.3 | I am really excited to talk to you. |
| 0:30.3 | Well, thanks. |
| 0:31.3 | I appreciate that. |
| 0:32.3 | And did you read the book? I did read the book. |
| 0:35.0 | You did. What do you think? Be honest now. |
| 0:37.0 | I plan to reread the book actually. |
| 0:40.0 | So I bring a lot of authors on and generally there is a you know sort of a central |
| 0:46.1 | thesis or takeaway to the book and I'm like okay I've got it your book has that and |
| 0:51.1 | it will go over some of them but it's also got so many kind of |
| 0:54.3 | actionable steps that you've got peppered throughout that I don't think I can retain |
| 0:58.2 | all of them. A lot of people have actually said that to me it's a very dense book in terms of there are 36 |
| 1:05.9 | techniques very heavily sourced from the research literature and even within those |
| 1:10.9 | techniques there are sub-technics and micro-technics things that you can do |
| 1:14.1 | to empower yourself in those conversations. |
| 1:16.0 | So ask away anything you want. |
| 1:18.0 | Yeah, great I'm excited and actually let me make a quick announcement for the benefit of show |
| 1:22.4 | regulars and then we'll get into it. |
| 1:26.2 | The political orphanage is sponsored by Nick's Horsless Diner, America's favorite diner which strictly prohibits horses inside the restaurant |
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