How to Disagree Productively & Find Common Ground

What is the speaker's mission in life?

• To win debate championships

• To help people disagree productively

• To avoid arguments

• To become a TV panelist

How did she feel during her first debate and how did she respond?

• She was perfectly civil.

• She froze up and was unable to respond.

• She felt the need to attack her opponent.

• She's never debated.

How do you reach people according to the speaker?

• By finding common ground

• Separating ideas from identity

• Being genuinely open to persuasion

• All of the answers are correct

What is the foundation of a debate according to the speaker?

• Making extreme arguments with no winner at the end

• Ignoring opposing views and attacking your opponent

• There isn't one

• Rebuttal- a debater making a claim, the opponent's response, and the debater's response to the response.

What does the speaker suggest is the antidote to alternative facts?

• Ignoring disagreements

• Shared reality

• Avoiding debates

• Winning arguments

What is your only winning strategy in Debate according to the speaker?

• attacking your opponent's identity and ideas

• ignoring our shared reality and each other

• engaging with the best, clearest, least personal version of the idea

• returning to online debating

Why is it so hard to disagree productively according to the speaker?

• We get attached to our ideas and believe that we own them and they own us.

• Our opponents are wrong and we can't help but become argumentative

• It is not hard to disagree productively

• The media is full of misinformation and biased reporting

What skill does the speaker say is important for better decision-making?

• Avoiding arguments

• Being stubborn

• Winning debates

• Intellectual humility

What question does the speaker suggest we ask to embrace uncertainty?

• What is your favorite food?

• What is it that you have changed your mind about, and why?

• What is your favorite color?

• What is your favorite movie?

What 1969 example is given by the speaker and why does it matter?