The Death Of Debate
Grasshopper Notes Podcast

The Death Of Debate

B1IntermediateSeptember 30, 20262 min

Send us Fan Mail Here's a recommendation to live longer: Let debating die. Grasshopper Notes are the writings from America's Best Known Hypnotherapist John Morgan. His podcasts contain his most responded to essays and blog posts from the past two decades. Find the written versions of these podcasts on John's podcasting site: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1628038 "The Grasshopper" is the part of you that whispers pearls of wisdom that seem to pop into your mind from out of the blue. John's essays and blog posts are his interpretations of these "Nips of...

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The title of this mini-podcast is The Death of Debate. As another Election Day approaches, I was reminded of something the Grasshopper said eons ago. End the debate before your life ends.

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I've come to suspect that debates are never really won, they're just endured. Somewhere along the way, I realize that debating is often just another way of staying stuck. We argue to be right, defending something old rather than being open to something new. The grasshopper put it this way, some people would rather be right than happy and preferring

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to be right, they are left out. That reminds me of something that happened years ago. A family member I don't see very often tried to engage me in a political debate. He made a few assertions about a candidate I had casually mentioned that I liked, and

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