GOOD ARGUMENTS : HOW DEBATE TEACHES US TO LISTEN AND BE HEARD
Εκδότης Harper Collins , ISBN 9780008498696
Electrifying ... A user manual for our polarized worldAdam Grant, #1 New York Timesbestselling author of Think Again By a twotime debating world champion, a dazzling look at how arguing better can transform your life and the world for the better **Previously published as The Art of Disagreeing Well** Everyone debates, in some form, most days. Sometimes we do it to persuade; other times to learn, discover a truth, or simply to express something about ourselves. We argue to defend ourselves, our work, and our loved ones from external threat. We do it to get our way, or just to get ahead. As a twotime debating world champion, Bo has made a career out of arguing. Over the past few years, however, hes noticed how were not only arguing more and more, but getting worse at it a fact proven by our polarised politics. By tracing his own journey from immigrant kid to world champion, as well as those of illustrious participants in the sport such as Malcolm X, Edmund Burke and Sally Rooney, Seo shows how the skills of debating information gathering, truth finding, lucidity, organization, and persuasion are often the cornerstone of successful careers and happy lives. Along the way, he provides the reader with an unforgettable toolkit to use debate as a means to improve their own. This book is an everypersons guide to disagreeing well, so that the outcome of having had an argument is better than not having it at all. Taking readers on a thrilling intellectual adventure into the eccentric and brilliant subculture of competitive debate, Good Arguments proves that goodfaith debate can enrich and improve our lives, friendships, democracies and in the process, our world.
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Electrifying ... A user manual for our polarized worldAdam Grant, #1 New York Timesbestselling author of Think Again By a twotime debating world champion, a dazzling look at how arguing better can transform your life and the world for the better **Previously published as The Art of Disagreeing Well** Everyone debates, in some form, most days. Sometimes we do it to persuade; other times to learn, discover a truth, or simply to express something about ourselves. We argue to defend ourselves, our work, and our loved ones from external threat. We do it to get our way, or just to get ahead. As a twotime debating world champion, Bo has made a career out of arguing. Over the past few years, however, hes noticed how were not only arguing more and more, but getting worse at it a fact proven by our polarised politics. By tracing his own journey from immigrant kid to world champion, as well as those of illustrious participants in the sport such as Malcolm X, Edmund Burke and Sally Rooney, Seo shows how the skills of debating information gathering, truth finding, lucidity, organization, and persuasion are often the cornerstone of successful careers and happy lives. Along the way, he provides the reader with an unforgettable toolkit to use debate as a means to improve their own. This book is an everypersons guide to disagreeing well, so that the outcome of having had an argument is better than not having it at all. Taking readers on a thrilling intellectual adventure into the eccentric and brilliant subculture of competitive debate, Good Arguments proves that goodfaith debate can enrich and improve our lives, friendships, democracies and in the process, our world.
Πληροφορίες προϊόντος
- Eκδότης Harper Collins
- ISBN 9780008498696
- Κωδικός Ευριπίδη 888888800039
- Έτος κυκλοφορίας 2023
- Σελίδες 352
- Διαστάσεις
- Βάρος 450 gr