How to disagree productively and find common ground ? By Julia Dhar, Business Strategist, TED Oct...

1. Questions to ask

1.1. What it would take to change one's mind ?

1.2. What technical skills of debate and persuasion do I need ?

1.3. What idea have you changed your mind about and why ?

2. Approaches

2.1. Gather a lot of odeas on the same template, anonymous and without identity to analyse a situation

2.2. The humility of uncertainty, otherwise, mututal ownership between ideas and people

2.2.1. evaluate a wide range of evidences

2.2.2. become more objective and less defensive

3. Context

3.1. Some days, we can't agree on anything

3.2. Examples : TV, people online,

3.3. Fear leads to not discuss

3.4. What to do ?

4. Mechanism of debate

4.1. Big idea on the table, one big group agreeing, the other not agreeing

4.2. How to overcome the humiliation because of disagreement ?

4.3. Seperate ideas from identity : find a commun ground !

5. Problem and analysis

5.1. Change our public conversation

5.2. Debate is engaging with the conflicting idea

5.3. Rebuttal : mechanism of exchaging ideas (idea + response + response to the response)

5.4. People who disagree most start from shared reality