From the Ted Talk by Julia Dhar: How to have constructive conversations
Unscramble the Blue Letters
When people shared with my dad their hopes for America, that's where they started with the big ptuirce, not with personality or pticolis or policies. Because inadvertently they were doing something that we do ntallruay with outsiders and find it really difficult sometimes to do with insiders. They painted in broad skrotes before digging into the details.
But maybe you live in the same zip code or the same house and it feels like none of that coommn ground is there today. Then you might consider a voseirn of disagreement time travel, asking your counterpart to articulate what kind of ngohobireohd, country, world, cnimutmoy, they want a year from now, a dcdeae from now. It is very tempting to dwell in present tensions and get bogged down in practicalities. Inviting people to inhabit a future possibility opens up the chance of a conversation with purpose.
Open Cloze
When people shared with my dad their hopes for America, that's where they started with the big _______, not with personality or ________ or policies. Because inadvertently they were doing something that we do _________ with outsiders and find it really difficult sometimes to do with insiders. They painted in broad _______ before digging into the details.
But maybe you live in the same zip code or the same house and it feels like none of that ______ ground is there today. Then you might consider a _______ of disagreement time travel, asking your counterpart to articulate what kind of ____________, country, world, _________, they want a year from now, a ______ from now. It is very tempting to dwell in present tensions and get bogged down in practicalities. Inviting people to inhabit a future possibility opens up the chance of a conversation with purpose.
Solution
naturally
community
common
picture
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politics
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Original Text
When people shared with my dad their hopes for America, that's where they started with the big picture, not with personality or politics or policies. Because inadvertently they were doing something that we do naturally with outsiders and find it really difficult sometimes to do with insiders. They painted in broad strokes before digging into the details.
But maybe you live in the same zip code or the same house and it feels like none of that common ground is there today. Then you might consider a version of disagreement time travel, asking your counterpart to articulate what kind of neighborhood, country, world, community, they want a year from now, a decade from now. It is very tempting to dwell in present tensions and get bogged down in practicalities. Inviting people to inhabit a future possibility opens up the chance of a conversation with purpose.