How to Have Impossible Conversations: A Very Practical Guide

This book is excellent and if you don’t believe me then read it

essential strategies to help you communicate

Good read.

Useful from the start

I like the premise and aim. I am not so impressed by the execution. Some of the points are practically useful. But it could have been a much shorter and less repetitive book, more sharply structured. More important, unfortunately it reads like an internal manual for young debaters to go out and impress their viewpoints on the world, presuming crucially that those they would debate against did not also read this book. The techniques seem manipulative in some stretches and it reads a bit schizophrenic as it sometimes assumes it makes no difference whatsoever what viewpoints you are arguing, but at other times seeming to assume that you are automatically the one with the superior logic, beliefs and arguments. Either the approach should be more robust to the case where you might be wrong, or it should maybe have been a very different book on how to argue a specific kind of viewpoint, be it atheism, the scientific method, centrism, or whatever.