How to Teach Civil Debate Every community confronts divisive times. A healthy community has figured out how to have disagreements without being disagreeable. So, a key skill is teaching how to have a civil debate. The civicsrenewalnetwork.org offers a range of...
Avoid the “Messenger Mindset” So often in preparing to communicate, we make a fundamental mistake: we enter a messenger mindset. Rather than establishing a clear goal and aiming to persuade our audience, we set out to inform, to update, to share. On this path, we end...
I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of -CLARENCE D ARROW To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know. That is true knowledge. -HENRY DAVID THOREAU We have met the enemy and he is us. -WALT KELLY'S "PoGo"...
If you want to avoid conflict among hostile groups, decentralize power-preferably to individuals. J.D. TUCCILLE | 4.10.2018 12:01 AM Emilee Mcgovern/ZUMA Press/Newscom As a display of Americans' seemingly growing intolerance for one another, last week presented...
HUFFPOST PERSONAL04/06/2018 08:32 am ET Updated 5 hours ago The day Donald Trump was elected I went online to change my dating profile. Right at the top I wrote, “NOTE: If you voted for Donald Trump, keep scrolling.” I wasn’t sure why I bothered, I rarely looked at...
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"Hopefully, over time, [the] two parties start to fall apart," says Rep. Justin Amash (R-Michigan) in an interview with Reason recorded last week at Freedom Fest in Las Vegas . "I can go straight to Twitter or Facebook or elsewhere and tell people exactly what I stand...
More specifically, “In 2016, Pew reported that 45 percent of Republicans and 41 percent of Democrats felt that the other party’s policies posed a threat to the nation.” Democrats and Republicans tended to view people who supported the other party as “exceptionally...
Supporters of Jon Ossoff and Karen Handel gathered at a Dunwoody food truck event about a week before the runoff. They tell stories of obscene gestures and testy run-ins with neighbors that still linger, strained by months of campaigning and sore feelings that won’t...
This story is important and I agree completely. And, let me add that, as someone that lived through the 60's, I think the fact that women are so engaged reminds me of how it felt during the 60's. Because their boyfriends and husbands were being shipped off to Viet...
If this is true, and I believe it is true, it is important. If you support Trump you probably don't believe this true. That it is "fake news!" Right? So there are two questions: 1) Do you believe that Trump's top national security officials were surprised he did not...
This feeds the narrative that we are moving more to the "Alt-Right." MADISON, Wis. (AP) – Assembly Republicans moved closer to creating tougher penalties for University of Wisconsin student protesters Tuesday, advancing a bill that would suspend or expel students who...
I find this post from a Christian Media Outlet to be very important. I particularly thought the following quote interesting. Political candidates have proven they are able to motive their colleagues to strategize, work, and give to accomplish their goals more than the...
7 ways A Learning Community Helps You Manage Change Our hyper-connected digital world has accelerated change. And, let's face it, it isn't always easy to deal with the twists and turns. To thrive in the 21st Century we must be flexible, innovative, and...
Communication is a requirement for almost any job and almost any life activity. Here are the top 7 communication skills that will help you succeed in work and life. 1. Understand The Intent of the Communication We all begin communication with an intent to achieve some...
7 Communication Skills to Succeed in Work and Life. Communication is a requirement for almost any job and almost any life activity. So the better you are communicating the better you will be in life. Here are my top 7 communication skills to succeed in Work and Life:...
This list of the 7 keys to being better understood is intended help you succeed more by helping you focus more on how you say something than what you actually say. A fundamental intent of most of us is being better understood. But, in reality, mutual understanding is...
Ok so here I go with my big gamble to try and help all my friends on both sides of the aisle, what I see as the key facts that are controlling our lives and our futures. My goal is that by learning the facts we can draw the best conclusions. Here are my conclusions...
A practical proposal for including US Muslims in the process of integrating new Muslims into our country.
The Republicans base their entire philosophy on a number of conclusion that all the “experts” in the world would see as completely false. Man has had no impact on Global Warming. - 97% of "Climate Scientists" disagree More guns would reduce deaths by guns. - No...
I can show you a fact on how the Dems and the GOP are different. The Republican Candidate for office in Georgia must sign a "Loyalty Oath" to the National GOP Platform. The Democratic Candidate for office does not. Here is the Fact: The Official Georgia Qualifying....
Here is what Restate wants to say: WOW! According to Restate John Boehner is not conservative enough. According to Restate he has 'betrayed the values" they believe in. The GOP is in huge trouble.
Here is what Restate wants to say: WOW! According to Restate John Boehner is not conservative enough. According to Restate he has 'betrayed the values" they believe in. The GOP is in huge trouble.
Communication is not a "ONE STEP" thing. Communication is a process of give and get, talk and listen, action and feedback. Communication is a cycle as shown in the diagram below. Communication begins when someone has some "INTENT." Communication begins...
In a recent Opinion piece in IJReveiew, our Congressman Tom Price, offered yet another vague response to one of most important social issues of our day; how do we achieve a healthy community? He clearly offers no solutions to achieving a healthy community. As is...
Solution Aversion - Why People Believe What They Believe In order to thrive in a rapidly changing world the better we learn the better we can adapt to the changes. So, the Learning Community is always interested in what are the barriers to learning. A recent...
Learning Communication Semantics - Glossary - Definitions Syntactics - Grammar - Pragmatics - Learning Communication Social Rules Prosodic - Meta-Communication, Communication about Communication, Para-communication Idiosyncratic - Using all the above to create...
Bill Maher asked this question, "Do you think social media made us bigger assholes, or we were bigger assholes and it just exposed us as being that?" Maher posed the question to Nerdist Industries CEO, and host of @Midnight on Comedy Central, Chris Hardwick, after...
A interesting post from the Religion New Service (RNS) about the "Edit Wars" on the Religious Pages of Wikipedia clearly demonstrate the difficulty to Building Consensus. But, there is a solution. Clearly identify what are facts and what are conclusions. Then...
Education should be about solving problems, not about "liberal or Conservative." Education should be about solving problems and making effective predictions. This means that the goals of education have to be completely changed from forcing conformity to a fixed...
Baseball has just started using Video to review calls. Football has been using it for years. So has tennis. Using video to review calls made by umpires helps us resolve disputes.
Yes! No! A crowd is not always wiser than a long genius. But, since genius is rare a crowd is often better. A crowd working together could be wiser than a crowd led by an individual. A crowd is not a team, but a team could be a crowd. All things being equal, a team is...