How to disagree productively and find common ground | Julia Dhar

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We all have opinions on how we think the world works

What are the chances that you are right with all of them?

Your chances will actually increase if you are actively changing your mind to be more correct over time.

Ask yourself, what would it take to change your mind

This opens you up to the possibility of being wrong

This doesn’t mean the you should change your mind all the time

Sometimes you are right, you just need to give equal weight to your opinion as to others’ opinions.

Just because you hear something new doesn’t always mean you need to change your mind right away

There are reasons people (or you) believed the things that they do. Take that into account

Sometimes the reason is ignorance. In this case when you learn something new it can change your mind

Most of the time there is a counter argument, find out what the counter argument is and the counter argument to that argument.

Most issues have been debated back and forth enough times that there are good arguments and counter arguments for each issue

Usually it comes back to where your worldview originates and what is most important to you.

Flat Earth Theory

What would it take? There would need to be a convincing set of arguments to explain the natural phenomena we experience.