HeyJaredMending Fractured Relationships
How you can mend relationships that have been severed by politics (or anything else!).
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How can we deal with fake news? (opens the original)
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I am again updating a post I wrote a few years ago because it is an issue we are still dealing with. If we’re trying to repair our relationships and by doing so, heal our country, one of our obstacles is fake news. We disagree about what’s true. As someone I know put it, we used to know it was true if Walter Cronkite said it, now we don’t.ShareThat’s because our med
Why are we so divided? (opens the original)
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I am rerunning this post because I am doing a session at the Piscataway NJ Library on Monday September 21st on this topic. I’d appreciate any other ideas.I’ve read various explanations of why we are so divided and they all have a bit of truth in them. Let me summarize what I think I have learned.Subscribe nowFirst, we always have had and will continue to have a broad variety of experiences and beliefs in
What can I do when a person has shut me out of their life? (opens the original)
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I am traveling so I am rerunning some of my favorite newsletters. It still seems relevant.I’ve been collecting stories of what’s happening to our relationships — from a person whose sister-in-law sent an email saying “WE. ARE. DONE.” From a person who’s blocked the phone numbers and email addresses of someone they were once close to. From a person who proudly declared, “I cut those idiots out of my life.” And this has all happened over disagreements about politics and cultural issues or from som
Dealing with the DEI Backlash (opens the original)
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I think it is worth reposting this newsletter from last year, which still seems relevant.With the current administration, there has been a severe backlash to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs. The White House has called them immoral, illegal, discriminatory, and wasteful. Government DEI programs have been eliminated, and even private programs have been affected. A divide has opened up between companies that have eliminated their DEI programs and the few who have taken a public stan
Don’t ask why (opens the original)
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I’ve run my previous post about asking questions a few times (link) plus one on bad questions (link) but the question of why people do things keeps coming up. I was just talking to a friend who asked me how he could find out why a relative supported a political candidate that my friend abhorred. I told him not to ask “why”. Instead, I told him to ask questions that start with “what” because they are easier to answer. I gave him an exampl
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