The Importance of Disagreement Discipline

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When emotions are running high, how do we take the temperature down and try to integrate these kinds of frameworks and discipline into our lives? I think the first thing is you want to come to this kind of agreement ahead of time. In your day-to-day disagreements, it's a dispute in search of a topic often. It may be worth questioning whether this mode that we have of thinking about conversation as free flowing and driven by just natural impulses isn't productive.

World champion debater Bo Seo knows how to win an argument. He’s made it his mission to teach everyone to disagree better. Bo walks us through how to apply the most effective strategies from competitive debate to improve our disagreements at the dinner table. Bo and Maya also discuss how to determine whether an argument is worth having in the first place.

For more on Bo’s work, check out his book, “Good Arguments: How Debate Teaches Us to Listen and Be Heard.”

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