We are not enemies | Arnold Schwarzenegger Posts where this video is embedded Conversational Leadership Mindset Developing a Conversational Leadership mindset Designing Powerful Questions Questions open the door to dialogue and discovery Friends with Cognitive Benefits Engaging in short friendly conversations improves people’s thinking Multipolar Traps Acting against our collective interests Opinion Polarization We are polarized across political, religious, moral, … Continue reading We Are Not Enemies Arnold Schwarzenegger (2016)
It must be considered that there is nothing more difficult to carry out nor more doubtful of success nor more dangerous to handle than to initiate a new order of things; for the reformer has enemies in all those who profit by the old order, and only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit … Continue reading Initiating a New Order of Things Nicolo Machiavelli
Abstract Recent findings indicate interventions can boost executive functions — mental processes that have long been thought to be static and not open to change. The authors examined whether and how short-term social interactions could create such cognitive benefits. Study 1 found that basic get-to-know-you interactions (with or without an explicit cooperative goal) boosted executive … Continue reading Friends (and Sometimes Enemies) with Cognitive Benefits: What Types of Social Interactions Boost Executive Functioning? Oscar Ybarra, Piotr Winkielman, Irene Yeh, Eugene Burnstein, Liam Kavanagh (2011)
Gurteen Knowledge Blog November 10, 2021, 16:47Research shows that engaging in short friendly conversations boosts people’s performance on a variety of cognitive tasks. A study in 2011, Friends (and Sometimes Enemies) With Cognitive Benefits: What Types of Social Interactions Boost Executive Functioning? by researchers at the University of Michigan, tested 192 undergraduates to determine which types of … Continue reading Engaging in Short Friendly Conversations Improves People’s Thinking Friends with Cognitive Benefits
Arthur Brooks is a Harvard professor, Ph.D. social scientist, bestselling author, and columnist at The Atlantic who specializes in using science and philosophy to provide people with actionable strategies to live their best lives. WebsiteArthur C. BrooksWikipediaArthur BrooksTwitter@arthurbrooksYouTubeArthur BrooksGoogleArthur Brooks Twitter Tweets by Arthur Brooks Books: Arthur BrooksLove Your Enemies: How Decent People Can Save … Continue reading Arthur C. Brooks American social scientist
Why we hate our political enemies — and how to stop | Arthur Brooks Posts where this video is embedded Conversational Leadership Mindset Developing a Conversational Leadership mindset Designing Powerful Questions Questions open the door to dialogue and discovery Friends with Cognitive Benefits Engaging in short friendly conversations improves people’s thinking Multipolar Traps Acting against our collective interests Opinion Polarization … Continue reading Why We Hate Our Political Enemies — and How to Stop Arthur Brooks
Divisive politicians. Hateful pundits. Angry campus activists. Twitter trolls. Today in America there is an “outrage industrial complex” that prospers by setting American against American, creating a “culture of contempt”–the habit of seeing people who disagree with us not as merely incorrect, but as worthless and defective. Maybe, like more than nine out of ten … Continue reading Love Your Enemies: How Decent People Can Save America From Our Culture of Contempt: Arthur C. Brooks (2019)
Love Your Enemies — Disagree Better, Not Less | Arthur Brooks Posts where this video is embedded Conversational Leadership Mindset Developing a Conversational Leadership mindset Designing Powerful Questions Questions open the door to dialogue and discovery Friends with Cognitive Benefits Engaging in short friendly conversations improves people’s thinking Multipolar Traps Acting against our collective interests Opinion Polarization We are polarized … Continue reading Love Your Enemies — Disagree Better, Not Less Arthur Brooks
Love Your Enemies — Say No To Contempt | Arthur Brooks Posts where this video is embedded Conversational Leadership Mindset Developing a Conversational Leadership mindset Designing Powerful Questions Questions open the door to dialogue and discovery Friends with Cognitive Benefits Engaging in short friendly conversations improves people’s thinking Multipolar Traps Acting against our collective interests Opinion Polarization We are polarized … Continue reading Love Your Enemies — Say No to Contempt Arthur Brooks
We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, … Continue reading We Are Not Enemies, but Friends Abraham Lincoln
Polarization of opinions is becoming more prevalent in today’s society and is creating both unrest at the societal level as well as conflict within small groups with different views. We are polarized across political, religious, moral, and racial divides. We fail to communicate with each other and treat people with conflicting beliefs as our enemies. … Continue reading Opinion Polarization We are polarized across political, religious, moral, and racial divides
Our beliefs are deeply rooted and are based on little evidence, yet we argue and fight over them. It is essential that we better understand the nature of our beliefs and how they are formed and learn to question and revise them. Our beliefs We are polarized across political, religious, moral, and racial divides. At … Continue reading Rethinking Our Beliefs It is not easy to change our beliefs
