Arguing

Several years ago, I was assigned a task as a newly joined member in my team. It took me several days to complete it, and I was so anxious to finish it early to prove myself to my new colleagues. I finally made my Pull Request and I was very…

Topic Information That Exists Outside Of Rounds Value: When you are arguing, your value is what your impact will tie back to. Criterion: The judging criteria someone should you use to decide who wins. Definitions: What your terms mean. Example Based on Clarence0 talking about why he is against anti-doping Value: Competitive Integrity Criterion: Beauracratic Corruption. The side which reduces beauracratic corruption to the greatest extent should win.

Arguing: what’s that all about? “What are arguments for? This is deceptively easy: we exchange reasons with others in order to affect their beliefs or commitments. I give you reasons to believe that something is true because I want you to believe that it’s true, or to believe more strongly…

All children fight. Isn’t that what we hear generation after generation? To my mind, there is only one reason children fight, and it is not because they are biologically wired to do so. Certainly, humans all have some aggressive instincts, but we do not all act on those. The days…

I hate the eighties. The fashion, the food, the music, the beliefs, the celebrities … oh god the celebrities! The eighties gave us nothing compared to any other decade. I don’t care what you say to me — I won’t budge (and there’s a reason for that). Even wars are…

Why men who understand women never argue with them, but instead communicate like adults. In this video coaching newsletter, I discuss an email from a viewer who just got dumped by his girlfriend of 9 months. He says he has read 3% Man over 20 times. However, he said that…