Dr. Alok 'Dr. K' Kanodia

We made certain choices that create the world that we live in.

The world that we live in is a consequence of the choices that we make.

If you have litter in your streets or your streets are clean, that is determined by the choices of the people that live there.

Very simple.

I'm not saying that a choice is right or a choice is wrong or left or right or whatever.

I don't comment on that because I know this sounds insane.

I don't know.

And I don't know not because I'm not trying to take responsibility or anything like that.

But this is a situation where I see a lot of people who are very, very convinced that they're right.

And so if I want to understand what I think is right, I should start by understanding what they think is right.

That's the only way that this is going to work.

Right.

And in terms of like what to do about this, like, I don't know if people have tried this or not.

But if you have any persistent conflict in the world, take your hot button political issue of choice.

I wonder what would happen if you took everyone involved or you took a couple people involved and you threw a psychiatrist in the mix to try to facilitate a conversation.

That's literally what we do.

We take people that are on the verge of divorce or in the process of divorce that hate each other, that are done with each other, and we use a certain skill set to increase understanding on both sides.

Instead, what I see is negotiation.

There's a great book called Don't Split the Difference or Never Split the Difference, which is about negotiation.

It's written by this FBI hostage negotiator who talks about how you can always get what you want.