James Sexton
The Diplomat
People, composure and the difficult conversation held well.
James Sexton reads as The Diplomat because his profession is conducted at the exact point where relationships fracture. As a leading US divorce attorney, he leads by negotiating between people at their most adversarial, finding language that de-escalates what emotion inflames.
“Man, what a danger if we didn't, you know? Like every, you know, you hear about people like Alexander Hamilton or you hear about people who like they were born of circumstances that like these two people should never have had a kid. And then they did. And that kid changes the world, you know? And like moves the dial forward.”
“Or even like MDMA, you know, like MDMA, which is an empathogen. If we brought that space and the divorce and conflict resolution space together, that sort of psychopharmacological intervention on empathy, one's empathy receptors or one's connectivity, I think that could be radically transforming.”
“Yeah, to murder. Yeah, I try to go two directions. Well, I have to tell you, I define the Ben Affleck movie, The Town. You know, that same friendship to me. I mean, to me, the ideal male friendship is the scene where he says, I need you to come with me. We're going to hurt some people and you never have to ask me about it again.”
“Does itself right? Like it really does I think it initially has to be a conscious practice. And by the way, it's easier to make it a conscious practice before it started to fade, right? I mean, that's what's so amazing about marriage is there's like almost eight billion people in the world and you're picking this one.”
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