I love to listen to podcasts, and it was The Mel Robbins Podcast that introduced me to a problem-solving exercise called the Five Whys.
The premise is straightforward. When you're trying to understand a problem, you ask why. Then you ask why again. Then again. By the time you've asked the question five times, you've usually moved past the symptom and arrived at the root cause.
I've been thinking lately that politics might benefit from the same exercise. Not because I think it would make us agree. It probably wouldn't. But it might help us better understand something very important: Why do you support the candidates you support?
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