I truly believe that my guest this week can—or at least should—be president some day. His name is Manu Meel, and he is almost singlehandedly healing the horrific political divides on many US college campuses through his “Bridging Sessions” which help students find new ways to listen to one another on explosive, culture war topics like Israel/Palestine, gender, race etc. In other words, he’s found a way to inverse the struggle sessions and screaming matches that have been sadly become the norm in recent years.
If you want to understand how we can unlock more constructive dialogue and ideological synthesis moving forward, I highly recommend a listen to this one. If nothing else, it’ll give ya some very real hope for the future of Gen Z!
Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
01:35 - What Is BridgeUSA?
07:19 - Understanding The Social Divide
19:03 - How do the Bridging Sessions work?
25:35 - Who Attends Bridge Sessions
33:24 - Incentive Structures to Maximize Collaboration
40:21 - Managing Bad Faith Actors
47:24 - Movement Building
52:23 - Turning Zero Sum into Positive
58:16 - Changes On Campuses Since Trump
01:02:35 - The Problem of the Ten Percent
01:06:33 - How to Redesign Social Media For Better?
01:18:03 - Bridging The Political Divide In Government
01:23:42 - Manu’s Mindset
Links :
♾️ BridgeUSA: https://bridgeusa.org
♾️ 2017 Berkeley protests: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Berkeley_protests
♾️ Why Bother Bridging Differences in College, Anyway? https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/why_bother_bridging_differences_in_college_anyway
♾️ Atlantic Article on Cancel Culture: https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2022/02/college-campus-free-speech-cancel-culture/621484/
♾️ Manu's X: https://x.com/manumeel_?lang=en
♾️ Forbes Profile: https://www.forbes.com/profile/manu-meel/
Credits:
♾️ Hosted by Liv Boeree
♾️ Edited and Mixed by Jackson Page
♾️ Produced by Luca de Vico
The Win-Win Podcast:
Poker champion Liv Boeree takes to the interview chair to tease apart the complexities of one of the most fundamental parts of human nature: competition. Liv is joined by top philosophers, gamers, artists, technologists, CEOs, scientists, athletes and more to understand how competition manifests in their world, and how to change seemingly win-lose games into Win-Wins.
Podcast links:
♾️ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@LivBoeree
♾️ Spotify & Apple
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