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\u201cInstead of a cancel culture, we need a kindness culture.\xa0 Instead of engaging in conflict, we have to engage in discourse.\u201d \u2013 Brian Buffini

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Division is everywhere in our world today. In this episode, Brian reflects on why people have become separated and teaches how we can come together to be more unified. He explains why this is one of the most unusual times in our history, shares some observations about where we are in our cultural dialogue and outlines proactive steps everyone can take to heal and reunite.

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YOU WILL LEARN:

• Why respect for others is so important.
• How to have grace.
• Why we shouldn\u2019t conform.

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MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

\u201cThe Third Option: Hope for a Racially Divided Nation,\u201d by Miles McPherson

\u201cHow to Win Friends and Influence People,\u201d by Dale Carnegie

\u201cDead Poets Society,\u201d movie

How to Love and Be Loved, podcast series with Joe Ehrmann

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INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES FROM THIS EPISODE:

\u201cCourage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.\u201d \u2013 Winston Churchill

"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent." \u2013 Thomas Jefferson

\u201cNothing great has ever happened from hate.\u201d \u2013 Brian Buffini

\u201cTry honestly to see things from the other person's point of view.\u201d \u2013 Dale Carnegie

\u201cIf there's any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.\u201d \u2013 Henry Ford

\u201cYou never really understand a person until you consider things from their point of view.\u201d \u2013 Harper Lee

\u201cThe smallest change in perspective can change a life.\u201d \u2013 Oprah Winfrey

"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth." \u2013 Marcus Aurelius

"It's not what you look at that matters. It's what you see." \u2013 Henry David Thoreau

\u201cIn diversity, there is beauty and there is strength.\u201d \u2013 Maya Angelou

"The whole is greater than the sum of the parts."\u2013 Aristotle

"None of us is as smart as all of us." \u2013 Kenneth Blanchard

"Diversity: the art of thinking independently together." \u2013 Malcolm Forbes

\u201cIf we find ourselves becoming critical of other people, we should stop examining them and start examining ourselves.\u201d \u2013 William Barclay

\u201cI do not understand the mystery of grace, only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.\u201d \u2013 Anne Lamott

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." \u2013 Mark Twain

\u201cRemember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.\u201d \u2013 Eleanor Roosevelt

"Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth." \u2013 President John F. Kennedy

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." \u2013 Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Conformity is the last refuge of the unimaginative." \u2013 Oscar Wilde

\u201cI still believe America\u2019s best days are yet to come.\u201d \u2013 Brian Buffini

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