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Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience
Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.
Your Guide to a Wholehearted Life: 10th Anniversary Edition
with Brené Brown
with Brené Brown
A portal to understanding the emotions and experiences that make us human.
Home base for anyone looking to step up and into brave leadership.
A place to join a wholehearted revolution.
Tools to bring courage-building learnings into the classroom.
Writings, conversations, and resources bundled around curated themes.
View collection
Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience
Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.
Your Guide to a Wholehearted Life: 10th Anniversary Edition
with Brené Brown
with Brené Brown
A portal to understanding the emotions and experiences that make us human.
Home base for anyone looking to step up and into brave leadership.
A place to join a wholehearted revolution.
Tools to bring courage-building learnings into the classroom.
Writings, conversations, and resources bundled around curated themes.
View collection
I love this two-part special series with Anand Giridharadas, author of The Persuaders: At the Front Lines of the Fight for Hearts, Minds, and Democracy. Every now and then, I come across something that makes me think in a completely new way, and this was one of those times. We talk about this concept of persuasion—the ability to reach across differences and believe that others are movable, as well as the idea that I have the capacity to be moved—as being the heart of democracy. I’m so glad you’re here for this conversation, and get ready to be persuaded.
Anand Giridharadas is the author of the international best seller Winners Take All, The True American, and India Calling. A former foreign correspondent and columnist for the New York Times for more than a decade, he has also written for the New Yorker, the Atlantic, and Time and is the publisher of the newsletter The.Ink. He is an on-air political analyst for MSNBC. He has received the Radcliffe Fellowship, the Porchlight Business Book of the Year Award, Harvard University’s Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award for Humanism in Culture, and the New York Public Library’s Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife, Priya Parker, and their two children.
The Persuaders: At the Front Lines of the Fight for Hearts, Minds, and Democracy, by Anand Giridharadas
The Persuaders takes us inside these movements and battles, seeking out the dissenters who continue to champion persuasion in an age of polarization. We meet a leader of Black Lives Matter; a trailblazer in the feminist resistance to Trumpism; white parents at a seminar on raising adopted children of color; Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez; a team of door knockers with an uncanny formula for changing minds on immigration; an ex-cult member turned QAnon deprogrammer; and, hovering menacingly offstage, Russian operatives clandestinely stoking Americans’ fatalism about one another. As the book’s subjects grapple with how to call out threats and injustices while calling in those who don’t agree with them but just might one day, they point a way to healing, and changing, a fracturing country.
Visit thepersuadersbook.com to download the first chapter of the book for free and to access a guide to being a better persuader.
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