![]() Next, we travel to Colombia, to find out whether thousands of people can be nudged out of high conflict at scale. Then we meet a Chicago gang leader who dedicates his life to a vendetta-only to realize, years later, that the story he’d told himself about the conflict was not quite true. Our journey begins in California, where a world-renowned conflict expert struggles to extract himself from a political feud. In this “compulsively readable” (Evan Osnos, National Book Award-winning author) book, New York Times bestselling author and award-winning journalist Amanda Ripley investigates how good people get captured by high conflict-and how they break free. ![]() Eventually, we can start to mimic the behavior of our adversaries, harming what we hold most dear. We feel increasingly certain of our own superiority, and everything we do to try to end the conflict, usually makes it worse. In this state, the brain behaves differently. High conflict is what happens when discord distills into a good-versus-evil kind of feud, the kind with an us and a them. That’s good conflict, and it’s a necessary force that pushes us to be better people. ![]() And it’s different from the useful friction of healthy conflict. When we are baffled by the insanity of the “other side”-in our politics, at work, or at home-it’s because we aren’t seeing how the conflict itself has taken over. ![]()
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