Contents

Cover

Title Page

Dedication

Epigraph

Prologue: The Interview

Part One: Why We Need New Ways to Argue

1. Beyond Fight or Flight

2. How Conflict Brings Us Closer

3. How Conflict Makes Us Smarter

4. How Conflict Inspires Us

Part Two: Rules of Productive Argument

5. First, Connect

6. Let Go of the Rope

7. Give Face

8. Check Your Weirdness

9. Get Curious

10. Make Wrong Strong

11. Disrupt the Script

12. Share Constraints

13. Only Get Mad on Purpose

14. Golden Rule: Be Real

Part Three: Staying in the Room

15. The Infinite Game

16. Rules of Productive Argument Summarised

17. Toolkit of Productive Argument

Acknowledgements

Bibliography

Notes

Index

About the Author

Also by Ian Leslie

Copyright

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