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President Obama, at the Jan. 12 memorial for victims of the mass shooting in Tucson, Ariz, urged the nation to move beyond finger-pointing to healing, constructive conversation. How do you do that?
Laura Chasin, founder of The Public Conversations Project, an organization that helps individuals, organizations, and communities converse constructively on issues of conflict, offers pointers for breaking the argument habit.
2. Fight for Technicolor
• Don't reduce everyone and everything to black and white. Stand up for the multicolored reality of yourself and others.
• Listen to your internal dialogue in thinking about people who disagree with you. Have you developed mental habits that narrow the spectrum you see?
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