Buster Benson discusses how to conquer your fear of conflict and start disagreeing well

You'll Learn:

1) The surprising cost of avoiding conflict

2) Eight crucial steps for productive disagreement

3) What to do when you disagree with your boss

About Buster:

Buster Benson is an entrepreneur and a former product leader at Amazon, Twitter, Slack, and Patreon. He's now editor of and writer for the Better Humans publication on Medium, creator of 750Words.com which brings private journaling to a safe place on the web, and developer of Fruitful Zone, an online platform facilitating healthy discourse. He is also author of the Cognitive Bias cheat sheet with over one million reads.

Buster’s book: “Why Are We Yelling: The Art of Productive Disagreement”
Tool: “The Cognitive Bias Codex”
Buster’s Twitter: @buster
Buster’s website: BusterBenson.com

Resources mentioned in the show:

Study: “Normalizing trust: Participants’ immediately post‐hoc explanations of behaviour in Milgram's ‘obedience’” experiments by Matthew M. Hollander and Jason Turowetz
Book: How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell
Book: The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity by Julia Cameron

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519: How to Have Productive Disagreements with Buster Benson