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Instead, Professor Kahneman favored an alternative that he termed “adversarial collaboration.” When people who disagree work together to test a hypothesis, they are involved in a common endeavor. They are trying not to win, but to figure out what’s true. They might even become friends.

Cass R. Sunstein • Opinion | The Nobel Prize-Winning Professor Who Liked to Collaborate With His Adversaries

Resistance is not a peripheral opponent. Resistance arises from within. It is self-generated and self-perpetuated. Resistance is the enemy within.

Steven Pressfield • The War of Art

The Reactionary Mind

Corey Robin

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“Only when power becomes worried about its survival does it react. Appealing to its better nature is useless. It doesn’t have one.” If you’re not meeting opposition, that usually means you’re just perpetuating the status quo.

Frank Forencich • The Art is Long: Big Health and the New Warrior Activist

Finally, oppositions help to shape ideas by providing contrast. Albert Rothenberg suggests that the construction of oppositions is the most reliable way of generating new ideas (Rothenberg 1971; 1996; 2015).

Sönke Ahrens • How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking

Wisdom does not arise from clinging to one side or rejecting the other but from transcending their apparent opposition to uncover harmony. It

Troy Valencia • Living Beyond the Mind: The End of Personal Suffering

Authentic empathy has consequences. If you really understand the losses that your initiative would inflict on your opponents, you have to take responsibility for inflicting them. From your perspective, you did not create the adaptive challenge at hand, and your purpose is simply to mobilize people to grapple with the problem; you are not deliberate

Ronald A. Heifetz • The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World

Reconciling Opposites Jul 02

Reconciling opposites in various aspects of life, such as freedom-order, individual-society, and rationality-sentiment, is explored through various perspectives and philosophical ideas.

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