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Let 2023 be the year of Depolarised Living.

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Intellectual humility: the importance of knowing you might be wrong , Vox,  Brian Resnick, Jan 4, 2019 "There is a good warning indicator of when two people might be falling prey to the dynamics of polarization we’ve been talking about. Suppose you and a friend agree on lots of things. On all of those, she seems as perfectly rational as you do. She handles the evidence well, she is alive to subtleties of argument, a smart cookie. Not much gets past her. I’ll bet she thinks much the same of you. But her position on issue X just seems radically wrong, stupid, even. How can she possibly think that? That’s the warning indicator. It is hard to believe that someone so rational in other areas could be so irrational in area X. That’s a sign that it’s time to layout evidence and argument on both sides, re-calibrate and re-evaluate. There’s no guarantee that like-mindedness will result, but strong disagreement in a small area with a person you think is generally rational is an indic