Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out
by Amanda Ripley
Recommended by Adam Grant and Jim Knight
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See customer reviews on Amazon →High Conflict uses scene-driven reporting and recurring examples to give you a diagnostic label for fights that have become self-perpetuating. Amanda Ripley walks through political, workplace, and family episodes and supplies plain-language signals you can use to notice escalation. The value is in helping you name a dynamic that otherwise feels inexplicable; the limit is repetition—many chapters return to the same pattern—and the book stops short of detailed, step-by-step dispute protocols, favoring explanation over procedural how-to.
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When we are baffled by the insanity of the “other side”—in our politics, at work, or at home—it’s because we aren’t seeing how the conflict itself has taken over.That’s what “high conflict” does. It’s the invisible hand of our time. And it’s different from the useful friction of healthy conflict. That’s good conflict, and it’s a necessary force tha...
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