Sarah Stein Lubrano tells us about her new book, Don’t Talk About Politics, which urges us not to lose hope or become frozen in frustration when it comes to polarization and faulty discourse because the good news is that we don’t just know, scientifically, why the marketplace of ideas is currently failing us, we know how, scientifically, we can do better. 

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OFFICIAL DESCRIPTION OF SARAH STEIN LUBRANO’S BOOK

Democracy is dying because we are clinging to a dangerous and outdated myth: talking about politics can change people’s minds. It doesn’t.

This provocative debut from a bold new voice combines a fascinating range of research to show us the psychological and sociological factors that really shape our politics.

Drawing from ancient philosophy to modern neuroscience and social science, Dr Sarah Stein Lubrano reveals the surprising truth about how people think and behave politically. From friendship to community organizing and social infrastructure, she explores the actions that actually do change minds.

In a world where politics keeps getting more irrational, dishonest, violent and chaotic, it’s getting much harder to reach people with words alone. So people who really care about democracy must ask: how can we stop arguing and do the deep work to build stronger foundations for political life, and a better world for us all?

Cultures of Growth are environments that people want to be in because they’re places where people can thrive and achieve their potential, both individually and together. In a world where success seems reserved for a chosen few, Cultures of Growth unveils a radically different approach to creating organizations that inspire learning, growth, and success at all levels.

Sarah Stein Lubrano is a writer and researcher who focuses on social and political life and its relationship to psychology. Her public-facing thinking often happens through the Sense and Solidarity Initiative, a platform she founded with Max Haiven where people who want to radically change the world can learn together and build individual and collective capacity.

She is also Head of Research for The Future Narratives Lab, where her work focuses on narratives about social and political change. She is the Head of Content for the Ahead app and serves on the Institute of Imagination’s Global Imagination Board, as well as several other advisory boards related to education and the public sphere.

For many years she was the Head of Content at The School of Life in London.

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