How to Criticize with Kindness: Philosopher Daniel Dennett on the Four Steps to Arguing Intelligently - Deepstash

How to criticize with kindness

  • Re-express your target’s position so fairly that your target says, “Thanks, I wish I’d thought of putting it that way".
  • List any points of agreement (especially if they are not matters of general or widespread agreement).
  • Mention anything you have learned from your target.
  • Only after, you can say so much as a word of criticism.

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