Drawing on advice from the world's leading experts on conflict and communication--from relationship scientists to hostage negotiators to diplomats--Ian Leslie, a columnist for the New Statesman, shows us how to transform the heat of conflict, disagreement and argument into the light of insight, creativity and connection, in a book with vital lessons for the home, workplace, and public arena. For most people, conflict triggers a fight or flight response. Disagreeing productively is a hard skill for which neither evolution or society has equipped us. It's a skill we urgently need to acquire; otherwise, our increasingly vociferous disagreements are destined to tear us apart. Productive disagreement is a way of thinking, perhaps the best one we have. It makes us smarter and more creative, and it can even bring us closer together. It's critical to the success of any shared enterprise, from a marriage, to a business, to a democracy. Isn't it time we gave more thought to how to do it well? In an increasingly polarized world, our only chance for coming together and moving forward is to learn from those who have mastered the art and science of disagreement. In this book, we'll learn from experts who are highly skilled at getting the most out of highly charged encounters: interrogators, cops, divorce mediators, therapists, diplomats, psychologists. These professionals know how to get something valuable - information, insight, ideas--from the toughest, most antagonistic conversations. They are brilliant communicators: masters at shaping the conversation beneath the conversation. They know how to turn the heat of conflict into the light of creativity, connection, and insight.&nbsp; In this much-need book, Ian Leslie explores what happens to us when we argue, why disagreement makes us stressed, and why we get angry. He explains why we urgently need to transform the way we think about conflict and how having better disagreements can make us more successful. By drawing together the lessons he learns from different experts, he proposes a series of clear principles that we can all use to make our most difficult dialogues more productive--and our increasingly acrimonious world a better place.

Conflicted: How Productive Disagreements Lead to Better Outcomes

Business & Money

Leslie, Ian

Business Culture

Harper Business

Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends on It

Title: Curious( The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends on It) Binding: Hardcover Author: IanLeslie Publisher: BasicBooks(AZ)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Basic Books

A fun yet provocative look at the importance of staying curious in an increasingly indifferent world Everyone is born curious. But only some retain the habits of exploring, learning, and discovering as they grow older. Those who do so tend to be smarter, more creative, and more successful. But at the very moment when the rewards of curiosity have never been higher, it is misunderstood and undervalued, and increasingly monopolized by the cognitive elite. A "curiosity divide" is opening up. In Curious, Ian Leslie makes a passionate case for the cultivation of our "desire to know." Drawing on fascinating research from psychology, economics, education, and business, Leslie looks at what feeds curiosity and what starves it, and finds surprising answers. Curiosity is a mental muscle that atrophies without regular exercise and a habit that parents, schools, and workplaces need to nurture. Filled with inspiring stories, case studies, and practical advice, Curious will change the way you think about your own mental life, and that of those around you.

Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends On It

Self-Help

Creativity

Freshman writers at Durham School of the Arts, a public arts magnet school in North Carolina, share the stories of their teenage lives in this wide-ranging collection of short memoirs. Originally written for a class project, the memoirs were edited by student Kaitlin Medlin and staff and supervised by teacher Alexa Garvoille. Covering topics from the power of the arts to the effects of abuse, from journeys of faith to chronicles of friendship, Going on 15: Memoirs of Freshmen reminds adult and teen readers alike to look beyond the friends, the classmates, the students, or the children we think we know, and listen to their voices.

Going on 15: Memoirs of Freshmen

Garvoille, Alexa

Medlin, Kaitlin

Walsh-Seaman, Fenn

Ehrisman, Joanna

Barboza, Maria

Children's Books

lulu.com

Bringing valuable lessons from the cutting edge of communication science, Conflicted does for our verbal communication what Thinking Fast and Slow did for our inner decision-making.\n'One of my favourite writers . . . Beautifully argued. Desperately needed.' 
MALCOLM GLADWELL\n'Invaluable. The world will be a better place if everyone reads this book, and because it's so entertaining they probably will.' 
PHILPPA PERRY\n'Essential.' 
THE TIMES\n'Fascinating.' 
FINANCIAL TIMES\nWhat is the secret of happy relationships?\nHow do companies build collaborative cultures?\nWhat lies behind some of the greatest scientific and creative breakthroughs?\nThe surprising answer is: conflict.\nInsight and empathy spring from the clash of different perspectives. In a world where it's easier than ever for people to share their opinions, we should be reaping the benefits of diverse views. Instead, we too often find ourselves mired in hostility or - worse - avoiding disagreement altogether. Ian Leslie argues that this is because most of us never learn how to air our differences in a way that leads to progress.\nConflicted draws essential lessons on how to disagree well from world-class experts: interrogators, hostage negotiators, divorce mediators, diplomats and addiction counsellors. It tells inspiring stories of productive disagreements, from the invention of the aeroplane to the success of The Rolling Stones, and combines them with fascinating insights from the science of human communication.\nWhether it's at work, at home, or in public, confronting our differences is the only way to make the most of them. Conflicted is about how to do that successfully.

Conflicted: Why Arguments Are Tearing Us Apart and How They Can Bring Us Together

Science & Math

Faber&Faber

A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR\n>Ian Leslie's acclaimed new book reveals the secrets of how to disagree without fighting, and shows how mastering the techniques of productive disagreement can transform every aspect of our lives.\n'One of my favourite writers . . . Beautifully argued, desperately needed.' 
MALCOLM GLADWELL\n'Invaluable. The world will be a better place if everyone reads this book.' 
PHILPPA PERRY\n'A cool bath of sanity in a world of frenzied hot takes.' 
HELEN LEWIS\n'Perspective-shifting in important ways.' 
OLIVER BURKEMAN\nWhat is the secret of happy relationships ?\nHow do companies build collaborative cultures?\nWhat lies behind some of the greatest scientific and creative breakthroughs?\nThe surprising answer conflict .\nWhether it's at work, at home or in public, confronting our differences is the only way to make the most out of them. How to Disagree is about how to do that successfully.\nDrawing on essential lessons from world-class experts on how to disagree well and combining them with inspiring stories of productive disagreements from science, technology and the arts, Ian Leslie reveals how we can reap the benefits of diverse viewpoints in an era that feels more divided than ever.\n'I nodded and underlined my way through the book's nearly 300 pages of eloquent, thoughtful advice . . . If you want to argue better, Leslie's manual will be invaluable.' 
THE TIMES\n'Leslie has a way of bringing fresh perspectives and telling anecdotes to obdurate subjects. Here he talks to everyone from hostage negotiators to divorce lawyers to show how conflict has driven successful companies and technological advances, and to offer ways to harness it in daily life.' 
NEW STATESMAN\n***\nHow to Disagree was previously published in 2021 under the title Conflicted .

How to Disagree: Lessons on Productive Conflict at Work and Home

Born Liars: Why We Can't Live Without Deceit

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

anansi

Behavioral Sciences

HighBridge Audio

The latest from Ian Leslie, the author of Born Liars, a Globe and Mail Top 100 Book, is a fascinating look at the human characteristic of curiosity - our extraordinary capacity to take pleasure in discovering, learning, and understanding.

We all do it - how to be a better liar, spot a charlatan and tell the difference between truth and fictionIn Born Liars, Ian Leslie takes the reader on an exhilarating tour of ideas that brings the latest news about deception back from the frontiers of psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy, and explores the role played by lies - both black and white - in our childhoods, our careers, and our health, as well as in advertising, politics, sport and war. Drawing on thinkers as varied as Augustine, Charles Darwin, Sigmund Freud and Joni Mitchell, the author argues that, far from being a bug in the human software, lying is central to who we are; that we cannot understand ourselves without first understanding the dynamics of deceit. After reading Born Liars you'll never think about lies - or life - in quite the same way again.

Born Liars: We All Do It But Which One Are You - Psychopath, Sociopath or Little White Liar?

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Quercus Publishing

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