Learning to Disagree The Surprising Path to Navigating Differences with Empathy and Respect

<p><strong>Are you discouraged by our divided, angry culture, where even listening to a different perspective sometimes feels impossible? If so, you''re not alone, and it doesn''t have to be this way. <em>Learning to Disagree</em> reveals the surprising path to learning how to disagree in ways that build new bridges with our neighbors, coworkers, and loved ones--and help us find better ways to live joyfully in a complex society.</strong></p><p>In a tense cultural climate, is it possible to disagree productively and respectfully without compromising our convictions? Spanning a range of challenging issues--including critical race theory, sexual assault, campus protests, and clashes over religious freedom--highly regarded thought leader and law professor John Inazu helps us engage honestly and empathetically with people whose viewpoints we find strange, wrong, or even dangerous.</p><p>As a constitutional scholar, legal expert, and former litigator, John has spent his career learning how to disagree well with other people. In <em>Learning to Disagree</em>, John shares memorable stories and draws on the practices that legal training imparts--seeing the complexity in every issue and inhabiting the mindset of an opposing point of view--to help us handle daily encounters and lifelong relationships with those who see life very differently than we do.</p><p>This groundbreaking, poignant, and highly practical book equips us to:</p><ul><li>Understand what holds us back from healthy disagreement</li><li>Learn specific, start-today strategies for dialoguing clearly and authentically</li><li>Move from stuck, broken disagreements to mature, healthy disagreements</li><li>Cultivate empathy as a core skill for our personal lives and our whole society</li></ul><p> </p><p>If you are feeling exhausted from the tattered state of dialogue in your social media feed, around the country, and in daily conversations, you''re not alone. Discover a more connected life while still maintaining the strength of your convictions through this unique, often-humorous, thought-provoking, and ultimately life-changing exploration of the best way to disagree.</p>