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Host @ABraverWay . Author ‘I Never Thought of It That Way.’ Senior Fellow @BraverAngels . McGurn Fellow @UFJSchool . #reclaimcuriosity 💪

Seattle, WA

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Joined April 2007

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Mónica Guzmán

2 years

Whoever is underrepresented in your life will be overrepresented in your imagination. Instead of people, you'll see monsters. Instead of possibilities, you'll see disasters. That's the challenge of a polarized world. Here are 3 q's you can ask to meet it. 🧵 #reclaimcuriosity

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Mónica Guzmán

2 years

@Lin_Manuel Needed to let you know that the line “A hurricane of jacarandas” has been in my head two straight weeks and I don’t even mind one bit.

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2 years

The book I was dying to write is the #1 new release in its category on Amazon and THIS FEELS AMAZING. 😆😆😆

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I’d never seen an owl in the wild in my life… until tonight. Every bit as stunning as I imagined. ❤️

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6 months

This one goes out to you, fellow bridge builders 😘

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7 years

People thanking @SeattlePD as #womxnsmarchseattle nears

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3 years

Here are 4 steps to curiosity in 2 minutes: - Mind the (information) gap - Trawl for baseline knowledge - Get comfortable with complexity - Reject easy answers Wow. This is way more fun in video than text. 🥳

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3 years

Unreal color in the sky over Seattle right now. Here’s the view westbound on 520... #sunset

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2 years

This is everything. ❤️

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6 years

I hoped Eddie Vedder would say more about the homeless neighbor in Seattle who inspired the @PearlJam hit “Even Flow” at tonight’s #TheHomeShows . And he did. He was a Vietnam vet. He lived under the viaduct. His name was Eddie. ❤️

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Mónica Guzmán

1 year

I'm friends with more Republicans in 2023 than I was in 2022. I'm not a fascist. But I know the real concerns, fears, and frustrations that make people wonder. And I know we can address them. ❤️

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1 year

If you are a Republican in 2023, you are a fascist. If you are married to/in a relationship with a Republican in 2023, you are a fascist. If you are friends with a Republican in 2023, you are a fascist. At some point, your actions need to match your memes. It’s a low bar.

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Mónica Guzmán

2 years

'I Never Thought of It That Way' is in reprint! This time with a quote from @nytimesbooks on the cover! 🥳 Thanks, @BenBellaBooks for believing in this book, and to everyone who's helped spread the word! 🙏

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Mónica Guzmán

8 months

Big news: I’m launching a new podcast! It’s called @ABraverWay , and it’s about how you (yes, YOU!) can disagree about politics without losing heart. ❤️ Sound on for the trailer… (1/3)

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2 years

It’s reviewed in @nytimes ! Haven’t read it yet! Too freaked out! It will happen, though, promise! AHHHHHHH!

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Can We Empathize With Our Enemies? One Author Wants Us to Try. (Published 2022)

Mónica Guzmán’s new book, “I Never Thought of It That Way,” examines our polarized culture and helps us find common ground.

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2 years

If we talk about crossing divides without crossing divides, what are we really talking about? Excited (and admittedly still a bit nervous!) to share my illuminating and wonderful conversation with @glennbeck

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Why Would a Lefty Talk to Glenn Beck? | Monica Guzman | Ep 138

After the 2016 election, journalist Monica Guzman heard nonstop from her fellow liberals that Trump voters were awful. But her parents — Mexican immigrants like her — were Trump voters, and they were...

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3 years

The first casualty of polarization is nuance.

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1 month

Been catching up on the debate around @JonHaidt ’s new book “The Anxious Generation,” which I’ve been eager to read for months. And I’m surprised how little of the conversation I’ve seen is coming from parents. Or rather, people speaking from the parent role. Or even, the

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2 years

I don't know how to sum up that talking WITH people we don't understand instead of ABOUT them is the most important thing we can do for our democracy. So I did a @TEDx talk about it. Got nervous as hell. And meant every word.

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How Curiosity Will Save Us | Mónica Guzmán | TEDxSeattle

For Mónica Guzmán, curiosity isn’t a muse that flits by when we wonder about something. It’s the most powerful tool we have to navigate our world, especially...

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2 years

"If you can't get curious across divides in a polarized world, you can't see the world at all." "You won't know what you're missing." "But you can find out." My TEDx talk premieres at 5:05 PT at ! Tune in & share! Eeek! @TEDxSeattle #reclaimcuriosity

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3 years

The most frustrating thing that's happened to me since I joined leadership at @braverangels : I now feel compelled to defend both the political views that are mine AND THE ONES THAT AREN'T. 😅

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3 years

Beyond excited to announce my brand new gig with the one and only @BraverAngels ! ❤️ Can't tell y'all how pumped I am to work with this brilliant team of innovators to bridge the political divides that keep us from seeing & understanding one another. *Let's go.*💪 (1/5)

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10 months

Feeling sad about something I want to share for a sec that's obvious but important. The Seattle city council primary elex were on 8/1, & I've been checking for new news coverage. There is so little. So damn little compared to when I first came here in 2007. 🧵

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8 months

I worry that we're all so conditioned to expect bad faith and manipulation everywhere that we don't celebrate where us imperfect humans are actually *trying.* Considering the circumstances, you did an important and brave thing not only inviting @coldxman to TED but also

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Turns out there are a few more things I need to say about the storm that’s blown up over Coleman Hughes’ TED Talk. It would mean a lot if you would read this through to the end! 🙏 The first is how unfair it is that Adam Grant got dragged into this. After Coleman gave his talk

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8 years

@kellyoxford I can't believe I just shared my experiences in your thread. Something is happening. Thank you.

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2 years

“You can't live off of what I've discovered. You have to discover it!” One of my favorite moments in my conversation with @glennbeck came at the end of this clip, when he reflected on his role as a commentator… and its natural limits for his listeners.

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2 years

If we want to re-unite America, ‘I Never Thought of It That Way’ author @moniguzman tells me we must ask HOW people came to their opinions: "Asking where someone's come from is one of the most powerful ways to understand where they are." But we have to start with ourselves.

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Mónica Guzmán

1 year

Oh my goodness this @SMBCComics panel nails it. Posting just a teaser. The rest is a must see :) #howwefightback Thank you for the tip, @Julian_Liberty !

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2 years

So this pilot sits next to me, we chat, and he asks why I’m going to LA. I tell him about my book, show him the copy I travel with, and he’s been reading it ever since! “I love the way you write!” he says. (His name is Kenneth & he’s totally cool with me sharing this pic) 😎

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1 year

Wow, @seattletimes . (And Seattle!) That's some resilience. 💪 Chart comparing metro daily Sunday circulation numbers (print+digital) from @jbenton 's fascinating @NiemanLab article tracing Gannett's steep declines...

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9 years

Notable: this @nytimes story about the shooting victims does not name the gunman once: http://t.co/YEOle7iIAk http://t.co/nLMZ5mXg8a

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2 years

Let's build a world that sees itself more fully and curiously than ever. 💪 Thank you so much for the chat, @andrewyang !

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Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸

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“We know what happens when the people we love don’t think that we really see them; they go find someone who will. Someone who might exploit that basic need we all have to belong, to matter.” @moniguzman

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2 years

Oh my gosh @pomeranian99 you are a genius this is amazing ❤️

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Clive Thompson

2 years

I dig reading old public-domain books from the 19th/18th centuries. So I made a little search tool *specifically* for that You type a query, it finds you one book that matches it -- and presents it for instant reading Behold the "Weird Old Book Finder":

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2 years

Wow. I was a sociologist before I was a journalist, and this wonderfully curious article by Columbia prof @Musa_alGharbi is reminding me why. Understanding each other *has to come* before judging each other. Has to! Otherwise 😫 we're judging *blind.*

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Why don’t some people want to get the vaccine? Here’s why | Musa al-Gharbi

Left-leaning people wonder ‘what’s wrong’ with the unvaccinated. But what if their non-compliance isn’t that surprising?

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Mónica Guzmán

6 years

Honored to be featured in the new @SeattleMet with @theevergrey cofounder @anikaanand00 and some badass Seattle women 🙌

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5 months

Happy holidays from our new puppy! (Who we’ve had for three months but boy do they keep you busy 😍)

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6 months

We interrupt your feed with a major proud mom moment. My son is at his first speed cubing competition @theWCAofficial . His all time record is 32 seconds. He just got 35 seconds in his first competitive solve. I love this kid so much WTF. 🥹

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2 years

One day to launch and it’s a best seller! 😆 Hardcover is #1 in its category! Audiobook is #3 ! #ineverthoughtofithatway

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1 year

What a remarkable moment. We’re so much more connected — and complicated — than our narratives would have us believe.

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“Do you know what you’re looking at? That is a list of the passengers on the Mayflower.” Our researchers discovered #AngelaDavis ’s ancestors traveled to the US on the Mayflower and here is her reaction. #FindingYourRoots

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2 years

‘I Never Thought of It That Way’ is now a #1 new release in conflict management! 😆 Thanks everyone for checking it out and spreading the word!

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1 year

Can we engage *bad* ideas and still consider ourselves *good* people? Thoroughly enjoyed my conversation with author and social psychologist @JonHaidt on the @braverangels podcast. Check it out!

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What’s your ‘red line’? | Jonathan Haidt with Mónica Guzmán

“The struggle between ‘for’ and ‘against’ is the mind’s worst disease.” In this episode of the Braver Angels Podcast, we brought some of the big, hairy quest...

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1 year

Today, I Never Thought of It That Way turns 1! 💛 I've made the greatest memories in the past 12 months, and the most incredible part has been meeting and learning from people all over the country who have different beliefs and different concerns, but share the same craving to

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As an immigrant, in particular, this landed with me.

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American is not an ethnicity, but America is an idea. #UnitingAmerica #LandofOpportunities New episode with @coldxman at 4 PM PT | 7 PM ET Watch:

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Mónica Guzmán

2 years

'There's a lot of money to be made in polarizing people.' Just heard this from a colleague. True and discouraging enough, at least to me. So here's a philosophical question: How could the market support DEtoxifying DEpolarization?

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3 years

Need an end of day pick-me-up? My daughter and I just made 100 mini chocolate chip cookies for her 100th day of kindergarten on Thursday and THEY ARE CUTE. 🍪

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You know what would be amazing? If we could track how good people are at sparking understanding among people who are nothing like them. I’d want to give *those folks* the mic way more often.

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1 year

I can't believe that @KCLS named "I Never Thought of It That Way" a Best #Nonfiction Book out of ALL the new books out there! 📚 I'm honored. If you want to read my book, @LibbyApp is a fantastic app to borrow digital library books for free. And the audiobook is on there, too!

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I went to the gym, I came back, I got a package, I opened it up… and it was this beautiful art sent as a thank you by a book club in Mount Gretna, Pennsylvania after I Zoomed into their meeting earlier this summer. 🙏🏼 Want to book me for a brief book club chat? Reach out at

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3 years

We don't see with our eyes, but with our whole biographies. ❤️

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3 years

One of my all-time favorite questions to dig one level deeper in a conversation: "What’s your most generous interpretation of why they (whoever you disagree with) believe that?”

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11 months

Thrilled to have spoken at the opening session of @aspenideas today. And I almost didn't make it! Flight got diverted to Grand Junction, and the taxi pulled in in the nick of time. I did NOT plan to wear sneakers and this t-shirt on stage. But it worked out :) #StayCurious !

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Monica Guzman says engagement is not endorsement. Invite friction into your life. ⁦ @aspenideas ⁩

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8 years

Could not be more excited to finally announce the launch of @theevergrey here in Seattle! Check it out!

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Hey Seattle! We’ve launched a new local media project called The Evergrey

Here’s what it is, why we created it and how you can get involved

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3 years

I just got off the phone with two people who are red/blue political opposites, and are married, and are committing themselves to fighting for depolarization against ALL the odds, and am overwhelmed, once again, with the caliber of the people I'm meeting through @braverangels ❤️

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1 year

Can't believe it's been a whole year since my chat with @glennbeck . This was such an interesting moment for me -- moving into how rarely we get confronted with *our own opinions* and how tough it is to really own them when we don't...

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If we want to better understand people's perspectives, we have to get curious about the path that led them there. To start, ask yourself about your own journey to your opinions... The answer may (or may not!) surprise you. @moniguzman

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"The people calling for gun control today wouldn’t shed a tear if every child on earth was shot. Just remember that. They want to to hurt you." An absurd exaggeration like this (direct quote from a real tweet) is the ticket to viral spread. But only because people want to

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1 year

Also fun: Meeting this guy - Eric - bartender just across from security at the Grand Rapids, MI airport. He’s been meeting a cross-section of traveling humans every day for 20 years and loves it. ❤️

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1 year

So, um, anyone know a great podcast editor and/or studio in Seattle? Ideally someone who'd be jazzed to empower listeners to brave the political divide? Asking for a friend. 😉

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1 year

Look who’s a Kindle daily deal on Amazon today! 🎅✨ Huge high fives and kudos to everyone who’s crossing divides curiously this year. Happy holidays!

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Mónica Guzmán

2 years

1. Ask *how* not *why.* "How did you come to believe what you believe?" They walk the path they took to their views and you walk right alongside them. It's a tour, not a trial.

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6 years

I read this today over a quiet lunch and loved it. Thank you, @TianaClarkPoet @poetrymagazine . I want more poems that capture what our phone and scroll and tap lives are really like.

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As someone who leans liberal, spent her whole career in mainstream U.S. journalism, & is digging into how the hell we see each other across nasty divides, I'm spending more & more time w/ media from the right. And the most illuminating, honestly, is @TheBabylonBee (THREAD)

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We all value truth. We're just looking for it in different places and we're not looking for it together.

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1 year

Testing a mantra: I’m confident I’m right. But I stay curious, not certain. So I look forward to being wrong.

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1 year

"Why not report out hope, the same way we report out dread?" Hope is NOT naive. It's not avoidant. It's a key part of the solution, as @amandaripley writes in this @washingtonpost column I hope can have an impact. 💪

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Opinion | This element is critical to human flourishing — yet missing from the news

If hope is critical to human flourishing, then why can’t journalists make it part of their job?

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Let's elevate this!!! "We never call our opponents 'haters,' 'bigots,' 'homophobes,' 'transphobes,' or 'fascists'... I don't want to lock them into an identity that may not be true that I won't allow them to evolve out of." I can't stress enough how critical this decision has

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How can activists be part of the solution to improving our politics? @TroyWilliamsUT and @EqualityUtah have set a great example while achieving what once seemed impossible, advancing LGBTQ rights in a heavily republican state.

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I get in an Uber to the airport at 4 am. I assume I’m gonna sleep on the ride. Instead I have the most wonderful conversation with my driver, Carlos. So many of these rides just fill me up. People are so wonderful and surprising. Sometimes it’s just wild to me that we would

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2 years

2. Ask them to share their concerns. And before you jump in with yours (!), ask if they have any others. Our concerns reveal our values. And conversations about values, if they are honest and curious, will almost certainly find common ground.

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2 years

There's way more where this came from. ✌️ Watch my whole @TEDx talk here! @TEDxSeattle #tedx #reclaimcuriosity #ineverthoughtofithatway

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How Curiosity Will Save Us | Mónica Guzmán | TEDxSeattle

For Mónica Guzmán, curiosity isn’t a muse that flits by when we wonder about something. It’s the most powerful tool we have to navigate our world, especially...

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Beyond honored that colleges and profs are assigning "I Never Thought of it That Way" to incoming students — and thrilled to be featured in this top books roundup from @usnews ! 10 Books to Read Before College

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10 Books to Read Before College

From gripping memoirs to page-turning novels, these books can make good summer reading for incoming college students.

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Mónica Guzmán

3 years

Here's 3 quick tips for un-sucky conversations with people who disagree with you, in 2 minutes: 🤔 Acknowledge good points 👟 Tell 'em where there's traction 🛡 DON'T go in shields up! Thanks, mom, for the inspiration. We're just getting warmed up. 💪

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A weekend treat: Curiosity in the spotlight in Sunday’s @SeattleTimes ✨

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"OK, now where are our blind spots?" Would love love LOVE to see more groups ask this question — political and otherwise. If they deserve success, they're more likely to find it. Humble curiosity isn't just a virtue. It's a strategy.

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2 years

"Arguments drained of affection can destroy the relationships that mean the most." Wow. Thank you, @DavidAFrench . Something to carry with us into holiday conversations this year. ❤️

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David French

2 years

Save debates for days when turkey isn’t on the table. But when disagreement comes, understand that we speak to the heart, not the head, that our own hearts need work, and that arguments drained of affection can destroy the relationships that mean the most.

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4 years

I spent Election Day with my parents, who voted for Trump. Last night I told 900 people at a @braverangels event why, what we talked about, and the promise I made to my dad about his grandkids. Here's the clip, which starts at 42:46:

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5 months

It's kind of exhilarating to disagree with someone who has a fantastic thought process. Like a call to adventure.

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1 year

Overwhelmed by the news? Do you read a *lot* of it? Here's a tip this ad didn't share, but I've found life changing. Read less news. It doesn't mean you don't care about the world. It means you want to show up strong to it. Take it from a journalist. It's OK. Really. ❤️

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8 years

Excited to see this up today! My in-depth report on how newsrooms can boost reach & relevance by engaging community:

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How to build audiences by engaging your community

People don’t just consume news today. They participate in it. People have access to vast and varied information. They pursue news on their own time, and on their own terms, connecting with others who...

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Inspect the other side's case generously and curiously. *Especially* if you are dead set against it. More of this, please. From ALL sides of ALL political arguments. Via Bret Stephens in his latest @nytopinion column.

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2 years

When I was 7 I was playing at Chuck E. Cheese when I saw my mom crying. I asked her what was wrong. “A war started today,” she said. “A lot of people are going to die.” I remember hugging her. I remember thinking of them. It was The Gulf War. It was any war. It was this war.

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Got my first vaccine dooooooooose! Thank you Brock, thank you Sundome, thank you scientists and doctors and essential workers and everyone who’s helping us crush COVID-19 once and for all!

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Mónica Guzmán

2 years

Oh wow! 'I Never Thought Of It That Way' is a @nytimes recommended read this week!

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12 New Books We Recommend This Week (Published 2022)

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.

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Mónica Guzmán

2 years

3. Ask what they care about that you're not seeing, that you might be missing. Why? Because we *do* share our values. We just stack them in a different order for different issues. Instead of: "Why don't you care about X?" Get curious and ask: "What do you care about more?"

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Mónica Guzmán

2 years

Fascinating project launching at @seattletimes today, beginning with a reckoning around the 80th anniversary of the beginning of Japanese internment. They say journalism is the 1st draft of history. Can it also be its perpetual editor?

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Mónica Guzmán

3 years

Whoa. 🤯 “If the rest of the United States had kept pace with Seattle, the nation could have avoided more than 300,000 coronavirus deaths.” From @ByMikeBaker

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Mónica Guzmán

1 year

Instead of responding to anger with anger across disagreement, try asking yourself, "What are they trying to protect?" This absolutely GORGEOUS illustration is by María Mendoza (thank you!) and ran with this interview by @jessnordell , author of The End

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Mónica Guzmán

2 years

I unboxed my book today! Held it in my hands! Proved its existence! It's real, people! IT'S REEEEAL! 😆😆😆 And I got to share the moment with the person in my life who's been the proudest. Love you, kiddo. ❤️

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Unboxing my first book! (With my first kid!)

They say writing a book is like having a kid—the sweetest, hardest work there is. My 9-year-old son gave me so many big hugs on long days at the computer. Wh...

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Mónica Guzmán

10 months

Want better, braver politics? Share the heck out of this video. Then ask *your* elected officials what *they're* doing to save our family dinners... & the whole American experiment. Thanks @GovCox & @GovofCO for stepping the f UP! 🇺🇸

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Disagree Better - Saving Your Family Dinner

Governor Jared Polis and Governor Spencer Cox on the importance of civility. Learn more: https://www.nga.org/disagree-better/

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Mónica Guzmán

3 years

At the airport for the first time in 16 months, I see a dad in front of me on the down escalator hug his son and smile big with his eyes. I teared up. I missed seeing loads of strangers being human so much.

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Mónica Guzmán

3 years

"Polarization is the problem that prevents all other problems from being solved." — @JohnRWoodJr

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Mónica Guzmán

11 years

Just switched from following Boston local news on live stream to Boston police scanner... #watertown http://t.co/KK8KgrJn2h

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Mónica Guzmán

8 months

Fact checking has been so well intentioned and so well resourced the last few years. But I’m concerned it skips right over the giant gap in trust too often. As if persuasion, and our collective search for truth, is possible without building trust across difference. It isn’t!

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Mónica Guzmán

10 months

The number of voices is down. The overall depth and quality of coverage is down. And this is Seattle! Imagine what new news deserts are drying up common understanding of local life all over the country! No one's writing about how no one's writing about things. 💔

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Mónica Guzmán

2 years

Isn’t being curious about the other side a betrayal of yourself & your values? Isn’t it unrealistic? And naive? I get asked this question *a lot.* Here, in 2.5 minutes, is one of my more passionately felt answers. 💪

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Mónica Guzmán

10 months

YES. This movement is young and old and Red and Blue and native born and immigrant and urban and rural and middle class and working class and all the colors and all the persuasions and we are done with the toxicity so get ready. 🚀 @ManuMeel_ @braverangels @BridgeUSA_

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Manu Meel

10 months

The movement is building 🚀 @BridgeUSA_ @ListenFirstProj @LivingRoomConvo @ConvergenceCtr and all the amazing orgs trying to overcome our toxic polarization.

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Mónica Guzmán

6 months

1. Someone says something political over the holidays you really don’t like. 2. You tense up. Your pulse quickens. More physically than mentally, you REACT. 3. Now you want to fight, flee, freeze, or worse — all before you can really THINK. Want to break free of this

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Mónica Guzmán

2 years

He was flying out and I was flying in, but with a little time left to boarding, there was no way I’d miss catching up with my @braverangels partner in crime. 😊 Safe travels, @JohnRWoodJr ! And see you tomorrow, @BridgeUSA_ !

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Mónica Guzmán

2 years

Oh HELL yes! "I Never Thought of It That Way" is a number #1 new release! 😆 A couple folks sent me this screenshot earlier and I missed it WTF! I'm with it now, folks. All is well. 😎

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I can’t wait to read this! Congratulations to @moniguzman !!!! March 8 is the release date. Preorder here:

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Mónica Guzmán

1 year

You never have to agree, but you can always understand. And that illuminates everything. 💡 Thank you to @UALR and for inviting me to campus, and to Dr. Melvin Beavers and the wonderful Christine Jones for the welcome and conversation! #Empathy #Kindness

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Mónica Guzmán

2 years

Getting ready to #reclaimcuriosity here at @ubookstoresea . 😎 Join us!

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Mónica Guzmán

9 years

|LIVE NOW| Writing about Meerkat in a column for @geekwire tomorrow. What should I say? #meerkat http://t.co/Dh1hDbSSvj

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Mónica Guzmán

11 months

How many studies do we need before we're *done with this madness*? "The research found that both major parties believe in the democratic process and values. But dysfunction arises when voters on one side believe their opponents are hostile to those values." "People most willing

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