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Mapping New Common Ground
by The Story Forces Project
There's common ground we all stand in, but cannot see - unless you squint in just the right way. storyforces.substack.com
Episodes
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Ch 21 - The Story Collection
In this episode, Jed introduces Premise 3 of the Story Collector Mindset: Throughout life, we each build a unique collection of stories…imperfectly. To clarify the notion of the story collection, he gives examples of stories he collected while growing up - some that he doesn’t remember…
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Ch 20 - Social Life Is Storytelling
In this episode, Jed continues the series on the Story Collector Mindset. This mindset contains a number of premises that build on each other, that together, radically shift the way we think about ourselves and others. Here the focus is on the second premise: We communicate by telling and…
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Ch 19 - Relentless Storytellers
In this episode, Jed begins a series on the Story Forces Mindset that’s behind all the others: The Story Collector Mindset. This mindset contains a number of premises that build on each other. Together, they radically shift the way we think about ourselves and others. Together, they make…
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Ch 18 - Your Story Changes Their Mind
In this episode, Jed finishes the examples for Compelling Seeds, a technique for changing another’s mind in a single, short conversation. This time the focus is on the final step, Glue in You, where you tell a personal story from your past that grounds the feelings you have on the current issue....
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Ch 17 - Compelling Seeds Examples - Part 1
In this episode, Jed gives examples with particular wording for Feed a Need, the first step in a Compelling Seeds conversation - the technique for changing someone’s mind in a single, short conversation. Each example addresses a particular need, either the need for belonging, being heard, being...
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Ch 16 - Compelling Seeds Fleshed Out
In this episode, Jed fleshes out Compelling Seeds, a technique for changing someone’s mind in a single, short conversation. For the first step, Feed a Need, he suggests how to start the conversation with an estranged family member, a friend, and a stranger at a protest by the opposition. Then he...
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Ch 15 - Compelling Seeds
In this episode, Jed shifts to the problem of changing someone’s mind who doesn’t want it to be changed - instead, they want to change your mind. This is the more typical situation we are in when across a political divide from someone. Jed introduces a technique called Compelling Seeds, which,...
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Ch 14 - The Story Step
In this episode, Jed lays more groundwork for how to change the mind of someone who is across a political chasm from you. He adds a few more concepts, sticking to the simpler case from last time - changing the mind of someone who wants their mind to be changed. They are stuck on a story that…
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Ch 13 - Story Stepping
In this episode, Jed uses some guided imagery to solidify the concept that strong feelings anchor stories, putting us under a sort of spell. Next, he tries to convince the listener that for real world scenarios of any complexity, the chances of any one person having all the facts straight are…
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Ch 12 - The Separation Pressure Mindset
In this episode, Jed introduces the Separation Pressure Mindset, the fourth connection mindset that illuminates how a particular force that pushes on us from within can push us physically away from those we disagree with, despite our intentions. Then, Jed shows how the four forces described so…
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An End of Summer Update
In this end of summer check in, Jed speaks to where he’s been all these weeks, and a modified approach for the podcast going forward. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit storyforces.substack.com
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Ch 11 - Connection By Curiosity
In this episode, Jed revisits the urge we have to correct others: Correction Pressure. He touches on how deeply engrained it can be and how it plays out in groups. Then he introduces a technique called Connection by Curiosity that can be used to work around correction pressure to connect with…
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Ch 10 - The Urge To Correct Others
* In this episode, Jed introduces a force called correction pressure - a force that powers the urge we have to correct those we disagree with. This force is central to why our world is so polarized, and tirelessly works against connection. He digs deep into what it means to hold a story, and the...
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Ch 9 - When Community Comes For Free
In this episode, Jed reflects on a question that is relevant to every conversation ever had, a question that led him to envision three different connection mindsets. Then he touches on how the title of this episode points to a lifelong project we don’t realize we are all on. Next, there are some...
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Ch 8 - Where I’m Going With This
In this short episode, Jed introduces a new resource and revisits the questions: What problem does the Story Forces Project address? How do these connection mindsets address it? What gives hope that it might work? What are the obstacles to it working? He answers each, but this time using concepts...
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Ch 7 - When Stories Pull Us Closer
In this episode, Jed introduces the Alignment Bonding Mindset, a way of thinking about what goes on under the hood to pull people together when stories they hold align. He explores how the common ground provided by these stories we hold in common is central to belonging, helps us know we are not...
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Ch 6 - Resisting the Push-Apart - Part 2
In this episode, Jed revisits the frame-surface-plan technique for preventing an increase in the emotional distance we feel with others. In Chapter 5, he introduced the technique using the example of sharing an apartment with someone. This time, he explores how the frame-surface-plan conversation...
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Ch 5 - Resisting the Push-Apart - Part 1
In this episode, Jed shares a simple visualization of how conflicts kick-in during collaborations. He delves deeper into the idea of changing the framing around a collaboration from "me vs them" to "both of us vs things that work to divide us”. Next, Jed describes a technique to reduce distancing...
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Ch 4 - The Distancing Pressure Mindset
In this episode, Jed gives a name to this first connection mindset - The Distancing Pressure Mindset. He introduces the idea of thinking of an emotion as powering a force. He coins the term distancing pressure for when anger pushes context out of stories, and this leads us to feel less connected…
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Ch 3 - Downstream From Backstory Blindness
In the previous episode, Jed introduced the concept of backstory blindness, a temporary condition where strong emotions can push context out of stories. We become blind to “the story behind the story” when that context is lost. This is a feature of the human design that often serves us well, and...
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Ch 2 - A Blindness We Don’t See
This episode is the first of perhaps three that will cover the first connection mindset. It won’t get a name until some groundwork has been laid. Here, Jed explains the central concept - what happens when our inner storyteller crafts a thought and emotions come along for the ride. Or, perhaps its...
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Ch 1 - It All Starts With Storytelling
In this episode, Jed explains the particular perspective that brought into focus a number of connection mindsets, each of which speaks to its own chunk of new common ground. He shares pivotal experiences that led him to that perspective - experiences that revealed how minds can be changed. He...
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Introducing Mapping New Common Ground
In this introduction episode, Jed from the Story Forces Project gives an overview of what the Mapping New Common Ground podcast is all about: * looking at what divides us and what connects us, from a very different angle * exploring what goes on outside of our awareness that pushes us apart and...
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