Why avoiding conflict isn't the goal
The meaning of productive disagreement
Gracious reader,
The ancient Greek writer Hesiod’s Works and Days distinguishes between two types of conflict: good and bad.
I’ll call these negative and positive conflict.
Negative conflict is zero-sum. It drives us to hurt one another in war and battle. Everyone is worse off.
Positive conflict drives us to be better than one another and can bring out the …
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