Do You Know How to Fight...Well? With Priya Parker
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Priya Parker wants us all to stop running from conflict and she says there is actually an art to fighting! The bestselling author of The Art of Gathering is back with her new book The Art of Fighting, a guide to having the hard conversations that can actually bring us closer together. Priya joins Danielle to unpack why avoiding conflict may be making us lonelier, how to figure out which relationships are worth fighting for, and why every fight may be revealing something deeper that we want. Plus, Priya looks at some of pop culture’s most memorable conflicts: from Issa and Molly’s friendship rupture on Insecure and Ross and Rachel’s infamous fight on Friends to the real conflict hiding inside The Devil Wears Prada. If you’ve ever avoided a difficult conversation, struggled to speak up, or wondered whether it’s time to repair a relationship or walk away, this episode will change the way you think about fighting. Priya shares:
- Why avoiding conflict might actually be making us lonelier
- How healthy conflict can bring us closer together
- Why the fights we avoid can reveal what we really want
- How to figure out what you’re actually fighting about
- Why conflict can be an unexpected form of intimacy
- How to know when a relationship is worth fighting for — and when it’s time to walk away
- What to do when a friendship starts to feel different
- Why some friendships need to evolve as we change
- What Insecure gets right about friendship breakups and “the dangerous truth”
- What the Ross and Rachel fight on Friends teaches us about group dynamics
- Why Priya thinks we’ve misunderstood the real conflict in The Devil Wears Prada
- A new way to look at Miranda Priestly’s iconic cerulean sweater speech
- How to ask better questions during difficult conversations
- Why you don’t have to resolve every fight in the moment
- The surprising reason some of our hardest fights can become a doorway to deeper connection
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