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We feel increasingly certain of our own superiority and, at the same time, more and more mystified by the other side.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003ebestselling author and award-winning journalist Amanda Ripley investigates how good people get captured by high conflict—and how they break free.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOur journey begins in California, where a world-renowned conflict expert struggles to extract himself from a political feud. Then we meet a Chicago gang leader who dedicates his life to a vendetta—only to find himself working beside the man who killed his childhood idol. Next, we travel to Colombia, to find out whether thousands of people can be nudged out of high conflict at scale. Finally, we return to America to see what happens when a group of liberal Manhattan Jews and conservative Michigan corrections officers choose to stay in each other’s homes in order to understand one another better.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAll these people, in dramatically different situations, were drawn into high conflict by similar forces, including conflict entrepreneurs, humiliation, and false binaries. But ultimately, all of them found ways to transform high conflict into something good, something that made them better people. They rehumanized and recatego­rized their opponents, and they revived curiosity and wonder, even as they \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003econtinued\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003eto fight for what they knew was right.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePeople \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003edo\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003eescape high conflict. Individuals—even entire communities—can short-circuit the feedback loops of outrage and blame, if they want to. 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They are learning to think, in other words, and to thrive in the modern economy.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhat is it like to be a child in the world’s new education superpowers?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn a global quest to find answers for our own children, author and Time magazine journalist Amanda Ripley follows three Americans embed­ded in these countries for one year. Kim, fifteen, raises $10,000 so she can move from Oklahoma to Finland; Eric, eighteen, exchanges a high-achieving Minnesota suburb for a booming city in South Korea; and Tom, seventeen, leaves a historic Pennsylvania village for Poland.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThrough these young informants, Ripley meets battle-scarred reformers, sleep-deprived zombie students, and a teacher who earns $4 million a year. Their stories, along with groundbreaking research into learning in other cultures, reveal a pattern of startling transformation: none of these countries had many “smart” kids a few decades ago. Things had changed. 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Tomorrow, some of us will have to make split-second choices to save ourselves and our families. How will we react? What will it feel like? Will we be heroes or victims? Will our upbringing, our gender, our personality-anything we've ever learned, thought, or dreamed of-ultimately matter?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAmanda Ripley, an award-winning journalist for \"Time\" magazine who has covered some of the most devastating disasters of our age, set out to discover what lies beyond fear and speculation. In this magnificent work of investigative journalism, Ripley retraces the human response to some of history's epic disasters, from the explosion of the Mont Blanc munitions ship in 1917-one of the biggest explosions before the invention of the atomic bomb-to a plane crash in England in 1985 that mystified investigators for years, to the journeys of the 15,000 people who found their way out of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Then, to understand the science behind the stories, Ripley turns to leading brain scientists, trauma psychologists, and other disaster experts, formal and informal, from a Holocaust survivor who studies heroism to a master gunfighter who learned to overcome the effects of extreme fear.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFinally, Ripley steps into the dark corners of her own imagination, having her brain examined by military researchers and experiencing through realistic simulations what it might be like to survive a plane crash into the ocean or to escape a raging fire.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRipley comes back with precious wisdom about the surprising humanity of crowds, the elegance of the brain's fear circuits, and the stunning inadequacy of many of our evolutionary responses. 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