Alaina: I see what you’re saying about conversing with different-minded people. One way to be sure to experience intellectual confrontation is to get in a conversation with someone with a basic philosophical disagreement. But under what circumstances do these conversations (with people who use different clinical practices) feel like they lead toward expanding wisdom, and under what circumstances do these conversations feel...for lack of a better term, annoying? Sometimes when I talk to someone I disagree with, I feel like I can see a problem from a different perspective, and sometimes when I talk to someone I disagree with I just feel more attached to my own ideas. Reading over what you said again, I see you used the phrase “cultivating that type of relationship.” I like that idea. It seems like a cultivated relationship, cultivated to support exploring differences in ideas, could make the intellectual confrontation something to enjoy rather than something to be afraid of.
Monday, April 9, 2012
Diving into EBP: An Experiment in Conversation
Part 8
Alaina: I see what you’re saying about conversing with different-minded people. One way to be sure to experience intellectual confrontation is to get in a conversation with someone with a basic philosophical disagreement. But under what circumstances do these conversations (with people who use different clinical practices) feel like they lead toward expanding wisdom, and under what circumstances do these conversations feel...for lack of a better term, annoying? Sometimes when I talk to someone I disagree with, I feel like I can see a problem from a different perspective, and sometimes when I talk to someone I disagree with I just feel more attached to my own ideas. Reading over what you said again, I see you used the phrase “cultivating that type of relationship.” I like that idea. It seems like a cultivated relationship, cultivated to support exploring differences in ideas, could make the intellectual confrontation something to enjoy rather than something to be afraid of.
