Electrifying … A user manual for our polarized world\'Adam Grant, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Think AgainBy a two-time 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.
Taking readers on a thrilling intellectual adventure into the eccentric and brilliant subculture of competitive debate, Good Arguments proves that good-faith debate can enrich and improve our lives, friendships, democracies and in the process, our world..
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 everyperson\'s guide to disagreeing well, so that the outcome of having had an argument is better than not having it at all.
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.
Over the past few years, however, he\'s noticed how we\'re not only arguing more and more, but getting worse at it - a fact proven by our polarised politics.
We do it to get our way, or just to get ahead.
As a two-time debating world champion, Bo has made a career out of arguing.
We argue to defend ourselves, our work, and our loved ones from external threat.
Sometimes we do it to persuade; other times to learn, discover a truth, or simply to express something about ourselves.
Electrifying … A user manual for our polarized world\'Adam Grant, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Think AgainBy a two-time 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
