How To Have Impossible Conversations When Facts Don’t Matter! Peter Boghossian

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A Note from James You know it s election season and guess what Everybody is annoyed right now Do you know why It s not that their opinions are annoying I could care less but everybody wants to know your opinions on everything And you know what It s a dangerous time right now You could have opinions about who should be president you could have opinions about Israel you could have opinions about Ukraine and you see people had opinions and like okay my friend has this opinion I have a different opinion That s not true anymore Now people hate you for your opinions whether you re on the left or the right or whatever And even worse nobody ever believes that you re just not interested that you re neutral Like I ve written for the past 15 years what I think of the presidency Heck I ve written I m even running for president and People say you can t be neutral or not have an opinion on Joe Biden and Donald Trump If you go to FEC gov I decided I could completely not have an opinion if I ran for president myself so I filled out all the paperwork and I m running for president Officially not seriously really but still to the point where if anyone asked my opinion I could just say I don t like either of them because I m running against them So anyway it s very hard to have difficult conversations which is why I m so glad my friend Peter Boghossian wrote a book How to Have Impossible Conversations And this is valuable stuff to listen to during election time Here he is Episode Description Facts Don t Matter Over the past year people are either on one side or another and they re so into their own beliefs it s almost impossible to have a reasonable and proper conversation with either side Do you remember all the impossible conversations that you had with your family or friends It s always unproductive and doesn t lead anywhere In this episode I have Peter Boghossian – an American philosopher pedagogist and author – on the podcast to talk about the techniques of talking to people that he described in his book How to Have Impossible Conversations A Very Practical Guide ————What do YOU think of the show Head to nbsp JamesAltucherShow com listeners nbsp and fill out a short survey that will help us better tailor the podcast to our audience Are you interested in getting direct answers from James about your question on a podcast Go to nbsp JamesAltucherShow com AskAltucher nbsp and send in your questions to be answered on the air ————Visit nbsp Notepd com nbsp to read our idea lists amp sign up to create your own My new book nbsp Skip the Line is out Make sure you get a copy wherever books are sold Join nbsp the nbsp You Should Run for President 2 0 nbsp Facebook Group where we discuss why you should run for President I write about all my podcasts Check out the full post and learn what I learned at nbsp jamesaltuchershow com————Thank you so much for listening If you like this episode please rate review and subscribe to The James Altucher Show wherever you get your podcasts nbsp Apple PodcastsiHeart RadioSpotifyFollow me on social media YouTubeTwitterFacebookLinkedInClick here to visit this podcast episode