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Discussion Questions
- Do your political affiliations or beliefs differ from those of your friends or family? How do you deal with this when these political conversations come up?
- Have you changed your mind about your political beliefs? How did this happen? Did you change your mind from discussion with others or from other events?
- Have you ever changed anyone else's mind regarding their political beliefs? How did this happen? How do you know you changed their mind?
- Would you consider yourself an open-minded person? Are there certain areas/beliefs that you don't think you'd ever change your mind on? Why or why not? What do you think you would need to see in order to change your mind?
- Has this book changed your mind on anything specific? What was it and why did it change your mind?
- Consider a time you made an incorrect assumption about someone else. How did your perception of that person change when you learned the truth? Why did you have that assumption in the first place?
- Gúzman discusses four specific conversation skills: Listen For, Observe, Offer, and Pull. Which of these skills would be the easiest for you to adopt? Which would be the most difficult? How can you practice using them in real-world scenarios?
- Since reading this book, have you had any difficult/polarizing conversations with someone you disagreed with? Did you use any of the skills Gúzman suggests? Did this help the conversation? Why or why not? Were you or the other person involved able to come to a mutual understanding?
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