Like that spark fire nation, JLD here and welcome to Entrepreneurs on Fire, brought to you by the HubSpot podcast network, the audio destination for business professionals with great shows like imperfect action.

Today we'll be breaking down the importance of civil discourse. To drop these value bombs, I brought Milan, Cortistani, into EO Fire Studios.

Milan is an entrepreneur, writer and author of I'm Just Saying. He is also a three time company founder focused on building sustainable businesses that drive positive social change at scale.

And today Fire Nation want to talk about what it means to maintain civil discourse in today's world.

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Milan, say what's up to Fire Nation and share something that you believe about becoming successful that most people disagree with.

I believe that most people disagree with that fact that they need to release their ego to become successful. Hello Fire Nation. Good to be here.

Milan is going to rock the mic and talk about the importance of civil discourse. And I want to just start off by kind of setting the theme here, setting the grounds.

What does it mean to maintain civil discourse in today's world?

The most important thing is that the majority of the majority of the conversation should be focused around finding common ground with the people that we're conversing with.

And a lot of today's conversation is talking at each other. It's debate, it's divisive and really this idea of civil discourses is approaching conversation with a willingness to understand other people's perspectives better so that we can create common ground and really have a progressive society.

Now let's talk about confrontations because most people not all, but most people hate confrontations.

So let's talk about why it's important for people to engage in civil discourse with those who have different views.

Confrontation is an inevitable part of our lives. I think that as what makes humans really unique is our ability to connect and collaborate to really compound greatness.

We are able to work together to make a lot more output than we would as individuals. And that's why we live in societies and that's why we're social and why we communicate.

And so a part of that is our ability to be able to have conflicts with one another and create common ground, be able to still understand each other well enough to move forward and collectively move society forward.

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