How to Have a Courageous Conversation

The opposite of respect, contempt, is the single most corrosive thing that can play out in terms of political debate. When we show people contempt, we're basically concluding that they're not worthy of having an that ae entitled to one. Feeling youare on the receiving end of contempt fires people up like nothing else. The problem is it has all sorts of emotional effects on us as well as physiological ones. We become less mpathetic and more aggressive and irritable. And when we're in that fight flight free state, we are less good citizens.