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How to handle intellectual domination in discussion groups

A group of us started a book club that was supposed to be about exploring big ideas together, but there's one person who dominates every conversation and the rest of us have started just agreeing or staying quiet. I can feel the intellectual curiosity dying but I don't know how to address it without seeming like I'm attacking them personally.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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One person's need to be right is killing the group's capacity for genuine inquiry, and everyone else is colluding through silence.

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