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🗓️ 14 October 2024
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Amanda Ripley is a New York Times bestselling author, a Washington Post contributing columnist, and the co-founder of Good Conflict, a media and training company that helps people reimagine conflict. She has written three award-winning, nonfiction books about three very different subjects: High Conflict, The Smartest Kids in the World, and The Unthinkable.
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0:10.0 | This is the 10% happier podcast. I'm Dan Harris. Hey gang how we doing? I think many of us consider conflict to be a bad thing. We want to avoid it at all |
0:36.3 | costs for some of us. Today's guest really changed my mind about this. Her argument is |
0:42.2 | that conflict is both inevitable and |
0:44.3 | necessary and done well can even be healthy. Of course, as we all know, it's very |
0:50.3 | easy and very seductive to do conflict poorly, the term for that, according to today's |
0:56.0 | guest, is high conflict, and high conflict can lead to all sorts of intractable and devastating situations. |
1:04.4 | The good news is that healthy conflict is a skill. |
1:08.1 | So today we're going to talk about how to practice it and how to avoid the briar patch |
1:12.3 | of high conflict. |
1:14.9 | My guest is Amanda Ripley who has literally written the book on the subject. |
1:19.2 | Her book is called High Conflict and she has gone on to co-found a media and training company that |
1:24.9 | helps people reimagine conflict that organization is called good conflict. |
1:29.2 | Prior to her book on conflict she wrote two two other books, The Smartest Kids in the World, |
1:34.6 | and The Unthinkable. |
1:36.9 | In this conversation, we talk about the key differences between healthy conflict and high |
1:40.6 | conflict, five steps for getting out of or avoiding high conflict. |
1:46.0 | Why this is a golden age for so-called conflict entrepreneurs |
1:50.0 | and how to spot them in your orbit |
1:52.0 | and actually how to gauge whether you might be |
1:54.8 | one in certain circumstances. We talk about a concept called looping which is a |
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