What you can learn from people who disagree with you | Shreya Joshi

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🗓️ 25 October 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Youth leader Shreya Joshi diagnoses a key source of political polarization in the US and shows why having "uncomfortable conversations" with people you disagree with is crucial to bridging the divide. "When we are able to recognize what unites us, it becomes so much easier to have conversations about what divides us," she says.

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0:00.0	It's Ted Talks Daily, I'm your host, Elise Hugh.
0:07.0	Y'all, we need more teenage leaders like today's speaker, Shreya Jochi.
0:11.5	In her talk from Ted 2022, the future leader shares what she's learned when people just
0:16.1	talk to one another about their differences.
0:18.9	And she shares her approach to disagreements, which is rooted in curiosity and not defiance.
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