I Used to Like You Until...

(How Binary Thinking Divides Us)

De: Kat Timpf

Narrado por: Kat Timpf

In this whip-smart follow-up to the “ruthlessly honest exploration of comedy and cancellation” (Dr. Drew) You Can’t Joke About That, New York Times bestselling author Kat Timpf examines the dangers of binary thinking, and how it threatens to take over our institutions, relationships, and even our freedoms.

For some reason, when it comes to complex issues, we’ve largely limited ourselves to just two options, resulting in a society of non-thinkers. After all, once you’ve picked a side, all the thinking has already been done for you. As an independent, libertarian voter who has spent the last ten years at Fox News, Kat has faced this issue too many times to count. She’s learned that surprising things can happen when you refuse to choose a team, especially when you work at a place some people call an existential threat to America.

Binary thinking is much more than just the enemy of critical thinking, it’s also an immediate danger to our political discourse, our institutions, our way of consuming news, our relationships, our creativity, and even to our freedoms. All too often, we will let a single difference in viewpoint, an assumption, or an association be enough to write off another person entirely, even if we know nothing else about them. We miss out on opportunities to connect or even collaborate, all while the people in power over us benefit from our division.

Through humorous examples from her own life and insight only someone in her bizarre position can possess, Kat reminds us that the world doesn’t have to be so black and white. In her signature witty voice, Kat inspires us to lean into thoughtful consideration, genuine conversation, vulnerability, and only hating people when they really deserve it.

©2024 Kat Timpf (P)2024 Simon & Schuster Audio

Kat’s Honesty

What an incredibly honest, raw, truthful life exposure of Kat Timpf! Kat is an amazing respectable human being whose book is captivating and entertaining. She presents a refreshing way of capturing our attention with her thoughtful well researched points of view. You are a gift that blesses us with an ‘open book’ to learn, listen and contemplate to improve our relationships and make an our world kinder. Thanks Kat for being YOU!

Another good one by Kat Timpf

Her book on comedy was a little funnier, and there were some repetitions from that book here. But once again, Kat is funny and smart. And though I'm a life-long liberal, I'm onboard with the main idea presented here. I may disagree with Republicans on many issues, but I don't hate them, and I hope they don't hate me. All the binary thinking, angry social media and hatred are destructive to our democracy. Thanks for another good book, Kat.

Kat delivers again

I loved the journey Kat takes in this book. She talks a lot about her personal experience with religion, love, family, friends, and of course politics. It's funny, takes both sides to task over rhetoric and devisiveness (as a any libratarian should), and reminds the reader/listener that really we all need to remember were all individuals apart from our ideals.

Kat is my soulmate..

Her approach to most everything mirrors my own and it love that she is so willing to say what needs to be said, that there are other options and opinions than just what mainstream media wants you to hear. Humor can help with so much and it makes things easier to "swallow" but for me,in the middle and libertarian, with a little l, an independent thinkers who dosen't want or need others to think for me, but does not have a national platform to say what I want to say, this book sums many thoughts up very nicely.

What everyone needs to hear in the heat of our political divide.

Thank you, Kat, for voicing exactly what many of us feel during this intense political season in America. Loved the many examples of how our silly binary thinking can get us into trouble. I hope people can listen/read this book with an open mind and some basic common sense in seeing that few things can positively change if we are too closed off to listen to the other side.

Great

I love her honesty and willingness to share her thoughts and opinions. Kept me interested throughout, I love her.

Great point!

Kat does well reading her own writing. I appreciated her honesty & vulnerability in exposing bits of her life to help make her points. She is the biggest reason I watch Gutfeld.

I missed the debate, it's Kat's fault cuz

Didn't turn it off..one sit listen.

If you are a fan of Kat, you'll know how and why THAT happened.
if you're not a fan or not sure, for Pete's sake AT LEAST TRY.

AT least find the safari chapter and listen to it THEN listen to the rest.

Kat and I don't agree on a lot but she makes me ponder things in a different light, she cuts to the bone with her blunt noshat-chat. That we do have in common and I'd sit and listen just for her candor.

Kat, this woman is old enough to be your Grandma, your Acutane story made me cry, the rest of listen had me chuckling cuz I have two daughters and a son who are very much of the same mind as you.... little "l's" and once they listen to this, there's gonna be some hefty, fun chats with them and their "sometimes too MAGA and uptight parents."

SO when do we get book #3?

Katxs courage h my often lack of it.

Kat sharing has made me want to listen to other's more, to think things through & be less reactive

Real life

Easy to listen to and funny. I found it thought provoking coming from a conservative religious worldview. I am a regular Fox News listener but, I am so tired of the extreme arguing back and forth that doesn’t accomplish anything.