Problem Statement: 

For most of us our care and concern for living in a world of peace and happiness, well exceeds our ability to do so. Many brilliant people have tried to diagnose how things go so wrong, in terms of our always quarreling the way we do. They seem to know the reasons why we fail to get along. They offer cures for the things that ail us, but at this moment (2024) we can’t move the needle. We seem to go around in circles, arguing about the same things forever. Albeit with different actors, but dividing along the same lines. Every presidential election we swap political parties and try different ways of approaching government. We spend the next four years with the losing party blaming the winning party for our problems, then we flip again and the same thing happens. No matter what person or political party is in charge, we always wind up with the same problems we had years earlier. It seems as if we've come to accept this nonsensical cycle as our reality and we are left to shake our heads left and right wondering why things are the way they are. Most people have a strange hunch, or a nagging feeling down deep that there must be a better way. So what are we missing? Why can't we better navigate our differences and disagreements, and simply get along better? This course attempts to help you answer these questions.