We Don't Teach Each Other How to Have a Conversation

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I don't know anyone who does teach their children how to have a conversation that you say it's amazing to what we have. It's a tool that we develop through experience, but very little self reflection and almost no instruction. We're sort of seeing the consequences of conversation being splintered into places where it wasn't really designed. And so now we're going back to the roots and going what what even is this and what do we lose when we're changing the ways we can have it?

In our highly polarized times, everyone seems obsessed with the truth: what is it, who has it, and which side's got it all wrong. What we don't seem to care about, says journalist Monica Guzman, is the truth behind perspectives other than our own. Listen as Guzman and host Russ Roberts discuss Guzman's book I Never Thought of It That Way, a call to get interested in the people behind the positions, and the experiences, hopes, and fears that lead to their beliefs. Guzman and Roberts also discuss the role of great questions in sparking meaningful conversations, and how we can not only get along with, but even learn from, those with whom we ardently disagree.