Garvey Berger: Perspective-taking across disagreement drives adult development
Jennifer Garvey Berger · #43 Jennifer Garvey Berger: The Mental Habits of Effective Leaders · Oct 16, 2018 · at 37:15
Jennifer Garvey Berger explains the cognitive difficulty and developmental value of adopting the viewpoints of people we disagree with.
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“It both creates development and requires development to take other people's perspectives, to take the perspective of Someone with whom we disagree, right? It's easy for us to take the perspective of others who are like us. That's super easy. We do it all the time, but our natural kind of response to somebody who's quite different from us or somebody with whom we disagree is to just look at the ways those people are wrong and to confirm our own sense of rightness.”
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