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B1 Intermediate English 4:36 Educational

Harvard negotiator explains how to argue | Dan Shapiro

Big Think · 8,206,471 views · Added 1 month ago

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B1

CEFR Level

5/10

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- I personally feel uncomfortable around conflict.

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- Now, we're here today to find out how to argue.

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- But conflict is useful.

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The question is, how do you deal with conflict

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the most effectively?

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Here we go.

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I am author of Negotiating the Nonnegotiable:

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How to Resolve Your Most Emotionally-Charged Conflicts.

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Have you found yourself in an argument

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that felt so frustrating,

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so at a core aggravating?

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- That's the silliest opinion I've ever heard.

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- It felt just nonnegotiable?

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Well, congratulations, you're a human being.

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We all experience conflict in our lives,

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and seeing what's going on in our world today,

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my hunch is you were probably having

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at least one of these conflicts about politics.

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Our country has fallen into what I believe is a tribal trap.

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Anything that that other side says,

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