What keeps us from really seeing each other, and how do we get it out of our way?
It is so much easier to talk about people who disagree with us than with them. But there’s no other way when we’re this polarized, I’ve realized, to let our real perspectives check, challenge, and enrich one another. Nor is there any other way to look past our perspectives to the experiences and values that shaped them — the paths different people walk to their views. To see people where they are, we have to see where they’re coming from. It gives us our chance to choose where we’re going.
“The barriers between us are lower than we think.” -Mónica Guzmán
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Journalist Mónica Guzmán is the loving liberal daughter of Mexican immigrants who voted–twice–for Donald Trump. When the country could no longer see straight across the political divide, Mónica set out to find what was blinding us and discovered the most eye-opening tool we’re not using: our own built-in curiosity.
In ‘Better Than Normal, ‘ Dr. Archer offers readers an empowering framework for looking at mental health, demystifying and destigmatizing the range of ways we all tend to behave.
Klein shows how and why American politics polarized around identity in the 20th century, and what that polarization did to the way we see the world and one another. And he traces the feedback loops between polarized political identities and polarized political institutions that are driving our system toward crisis.
We think our inability to focus is a personal failure to exert enough willpower over our devices. The truth is even more disturbing: our focus has been stolen by powerful external forces that have left us uniquely vulnerable to corporations determined to raid our attention for profit.
Two working moms from opposite ends of the political spectrum invite those looking for something better than the status quo to pull up a chair and listen to the principles, insights and practical tools they have learned hosting their fast-growing podcast Pantsuit Politics. You can also check out this title as eBook on OverDrive/Libby, as eBook on Hoopla or as eAudio on Hoopla.
A Curious Mind offers a brilliant peek into the “curiosity conversations” that inspired him to create some of the world’s most iconic movies and television shows.
A bold manifesto arguing that the most complex challenges we face today-as individuals, businesses, and a society-require us to ask deeper questions, not seek easier answers.
Questions help us break down barriers, discover secrets, solve puzzles, and imagine new ways of doing things. But few of us know how to question in a methodical way.
This title is also available as an eBook on Hoopla.
The political dialogue in America has collapsed. Raw and bitter emotions such as anger and resentment have crowded out any logical debate. You can also check out this title as an eAudio on Hoopla.
Author Bo Seo teaches readers the skills of competitive debate, and in doing so shows how they can improve their communication with friends, family, and colleagues alike.
