Join two-time debating world champion and former coach of the Australian national debating team for a dazzling look at how arguing better can change your transform your life.

Everyone debates, in some form, most days. Sometimes we do it to persuade; other times to learn, discover a truth, or simply to express something about ourselves. We argue to defend ourselves, our work, and our loved ones from external threat. We do it to get our way, or just to get ahead.

As a two-time debating world champion, and a coach of both the Australian national debating debating and the Harvard College Debating Union, Bo Seo has made a career out of arguing. Over the past few years, however, he’s noticed how we’re not only arguing more and more, but getting worse at it – a fact proven by our polarised politics.

In this livestream event, he will share an unforgettable toolkit in the skills of debating. By tracing his own journey from immigrant kid to world champion, as well as those of illustrious participants in the sport such as Malcolm X, Edmund Burke and Sally Rooney, Bo will show you how the skills of debating – information gathering, truth finding, lucidity, organization, and persuasion – are often the cornerstone of successful careers and happy lives.

Join us for a thrilling intellectual adventure with practical lessons to improve your own life and work.

Praise for Bo Seo’s The Art of Disagreeing Well:

‘A user manual for our polarised world. I can’t think of a more vital resource for learning to sharpen your critical thinking, accelerate your rethinking, and hone your ability to open other people’s minds’ – Adam Grant, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Think Again and host of the podcast WorkLife

‘In a world increasingly rent by division within and between nations, Bo Seo’s lucid and humane search for ‘better ways to disagree’ could not be more timely or valuable.’- Kevin Rudd, former Prime Minister of Australia and author of The Case for Courage

‘From two-time world champion debater Bo Seo, a thoughtful, instructive and eloquent meditation on the art of debate and why its central pillars—fact-finding, reason, persuasion and listening to opponents—are so valuable in today’s alarming ecosystem of misinformation and extreme emotion’ – Michiko Kakutani, New York Times-bestselling author of Ex Libris and The Death of Truth