Disagreement or Defensiveness

• When someone disagrees with us, we can often feel it as an attack on our identity
• That can cause disagreeableness because the information being told is perceived as a threat
• Cause you to:
• be defensive or angry
• be dismissive
• discredit the other person o...

We regularly find ourselves engaging with people whose core beliefs and values differ from our own. We might want to convince them to adopt our point of view, but this can lead to unproductive conflict.

However, people who disagree passionately can be easily trained to have productive i...

When you're having a conversation with someone who is closed-minded, keep in mind that you should not push further for them to understand your point of view and attack them for being wrong.

As long as we keep refuting their point of view it will only make them see...