Clear Thinking Podcast: How You Handle Conflict and Harmony

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This is the 100th episode of Clear Thinking Podcast, and we wanted to talk to you about how you hold conversations. I am a very agreeable person in the sense that I always want people around me to be happy. So it can have a downside that I may not challenge guests enough. And so I've actually been making a concerted effort to do that since the listener survey.

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Is it possible to be both agreeable and skeptical in conversations? How can you give feedback and challenge people constructively without triggering their automatic self-defense mechanisms? More generally, how can you challenge people intellectually without riling them up emotionally? What skills are needed to be able to have detailed, productive conversations across a wide range of topics? How can you push through plateaus in the process of self-improvement? What are podcasts as a medium good for?

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