Step One. Choose if you even want to engage.
"Deepak Chopra, the wellness and meditation star who has served as a spiritual adviser to Lady Gaga and is friends with the Dalai Lama, defines a disagreement as 'a clash of egos.'
"In order to appropriately engage in a disagreement, then, the point cannot be to win it or change another’s opinion — 'otherwise, they devolve into stubborn, angry arguments,' Mr. Chopra said. Instead, 'disagreements exist as a place to start negotiating.'
"From his home in La Jolla, Calif., Mr. Chopra, 73, has been looking out at the anxious and angry state of the world and he’s not surprised. Some people may think this moment in time is the height of political and social division — with people baiting each other on social media, walking away from friendships, even splitting up with lovers over political polarization — but Mr. Chopra said our behavior is nothing new. 'It’s been going on since the Stone Age,' he said."
Article: How to Have a Disagreement Like an Adult, According to Deepak Chopra