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The person across the table is never the problem. The unsolved issue is. So focus on the issue.
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When it comes to a lot of values issues – and what people really believe in their daily lives – the gap between conservatives and liberals isn’t nearly as large as it might first seem.
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Once we have made up our minds about an issue, stubborn consistency allows us an appealing luxury: we don’t have to think hard about the issue anymore.
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The issues we all care most about are the issues we all want to talk about most.
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When team members do not openly debate and disagree about important ideas, they often turn to back-channel personal attacks, which are far nastier and more harmful than any heated argument over issues.
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…where complicated issues are concerned, seeing the opinions of the other side is not enough. Social media platforms have exposed us to them, but they haven’t changed our minds.
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It helps to remember that we can fall victim to binary bias with emotions, not only with issues.
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…emotional involvement on one side of an issue makes it difficult to achieve the detachment necessary to think up wise ways of meeting the interests of both sides…
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The relationship between the sides, often taken for granted and overlooked, frequently outweighs in importance the outcome of any particular issue.
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If everyone talks a little bit, and no one presses too far on any key issue, breakthroughs are rare.
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