What Do Longer Conversations Make Possible?

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For three days in February of 2016, you logged all of your conversations. What did you learn? "Conversation is the most powerful platform there is" It's an amazing thing that we know how to do and it's made it so much possible, but it can also destroy us right what when we don't use it when we limit our tool set?"

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.