How Open-Minded People Think Differently

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I'm almost 60 years old, so I lived through the period of where I lost a lot of my gay male friends to AIDS, you know, in the early and mid 80s. And I also was present when they were disowned by their family members as they were dying. I think that that history That memory has survived.

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Never again is a LGBT kid going to be kicked out on the street. I think initially, for some, it came from a good place, a place of compassion. For some, I just think they're just very radical and they're more postmodernist and they want to destroy and deconstruct and destabilize.

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I think eventually we're going to learn that this was not good.

How Open-Minded People Think Differently | The Third Space

A discussion of how to be less narrow-minded today.

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Sep 22, 2024

The surge in narrow-mindedness and polarization in our culture is driving people to look for a better way than Us vs Them mentalities—a third space.

Zander Keig's new book, The Third Space: A Non-Comformist's Guide to The Universe, describes how to be more open-minded, curious, and resilient. As tribalism makes it harder for people to have productive disagreements, the ability to hold our beliefs while charitably engaging with contradicting beliefs is a superpower.

Zander Keig is a social worker, public speaker, educator, and podcast host who has earned many distinguishing accolades, including the 2023 LGBT+ Caregiver Advocate, 2020 National Social Worker of the Year award from the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), and the 2018 Social Worker of the Year award from the NASW California Chapter.

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Video Chapters:

0:00 Intro
2:00 What is the third space?
14:43 How do we replace polarization with the third space?
19:10 Practicing a third space mentality
24:21 What makes us more narrow-minded
27:20 Ego vs Internal Locus of Control
32:44 How certain ideologies actively teach mental fragility
48:19 Three tips for dealing with conflict better