I share lessons from thousands of hours of suicide counselling calls so you can better connect to the people in your life. Listening skills can save lives. I believe CPR for the soul will be normal one day, let’s bring that day closer.
Said Bouziane
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I like this suggestion, I feel like the big solution we need to find in order to implement something like this really successfully is to increase tolerance for discomfort and disagreement.
I see dialogue shut down far too quickly in intellectual space.
I heard once that the old philosophers in Greece needed to state one another’s position well enough that the the person they debated with actually agreed ‘yes you understand my position, I have nothing to add’.
Only after that did debate take place.
Not sure if this is true or not but the spirit of the anecdote feels like it’s really missing from most media and discussion out there in the mainstream.
What ways could interdisciplinary cross-pollination be more cultivated?