Healing the Increasing Contempt Between Us and Them: Building Partnership Bridges for the Good of All
Bridging the gap between ‘us’ and ‘them’ for a more unified world
We are living in a time of disconnection and despair where one group denigrates another and dire warnings are trumpeted by each side that if they win our lives are lives will be destroyed. When we talk to our friends and neighbors we sense that people are not as divided as the media would have us believe, but we feel powerless to change things for the better.
Robert Waldinger, M.D. is professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Harvard Study on Adulthood Development. Along with his friend and colleague, Dr. Mark Schultz they have written The Good Life: Lessons From the World’s Longest Scientific Study of Happiness.
Dr. Waldinger wrote an article recently titled “An Antidote to Anger and Despair in Our Polarized World.” He says,
I’d like to share some thoughts on a matter that’s been weighing heavily on my mind lately, and I suspect on many of yours as well — the sense of uncertainty and dread we often feel when looking at the state of our world.
