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    GOODWILL TO ALL MEN (and women!)

    Nov 22, 2022 5 minutes

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    Ali Goldsworthy is a strategic adviser at Stanford’s King Center on Global Development, and co-author of Poles Apart (Cornerstone, £10.99). wearepolesapart.com

    Kelly Hearn is a world-leading psychotherapist and co-founder of Examined Life, a collective offering life-enhancing therapy. @examinedlifetherapy; examinedlife.co.uk

    Biting our lips as we mix with the opinionated friends and relatives that we’ve spent the past 12 months dodging can be a festive rite of passage – but, this year, we may find our tolerance levels lower than ever. Recent times have put the kybosh on such gatherings, and, as well as avoiding the annual clash of views on everything from politics to turkey basting, our own horizons may have narrowed – making us less open to others’ views and more defensive of our own opinions. Indeed, we may find that, this

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