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The way to change people’s minds is to become friends with them, to integrate them into your tribe, to bring them into your circle. Now, they can change their beliefs without the risk of being abandoned socially.

James Clear • Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds

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Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds

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“It is difficult to remove by logic an idea not placed there by logic in the first place.” – Gordon Livingston

Collaborative Fund • Makes You Think

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This is important to understand when trying to change someone’s mind. Most people are emotional decision-makers, not rational ones.

The social and political philosopher John Rawls’ thought experiment known as the “veil of ignorance,” proposed in his influential 1971 work A Theory of Justice, provides a useful framework for these questions. When creating the foundations for an ideal society, Rawls contends, we should imagine that we do not know where we ourselves would fall with... See more

Katie Parrott • A Theory of Justice for Web3

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The “veil of ignorance” encapsulates the intuitive idea that just because something is good for us individually doesn’t mean it is fair.

Daniel Chandler • Free and Equal: A Manifesto for a Just Society

Every time you encounter new information, you have a choice. You can attach your opinions to your identity and stand your ground in the stubbornness of preaching and prosecuting. Or you can operate more like a scientist, defining yourself as a person committed

Adam Grant • Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

"Every epistemology becomes an ethic," the educator Parker ].

Palmer once observed. "The shape of our knowledge becomes the shape of our living; the relation of the knower to the known becomes the relation of the living self to the larger world." Palmer is saying that the way we attend to others determines the kind of person we become. If we see peo... See more

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When looking at my family or friends that judge first (which I can even do) - this is the argument or the recognition of why they (and I) should change.

I think too, that social media harms our ability to cultivate the qualities of an Illuminator - to care and see others. That we are not one thing at one time. That we all have grains of the same qualities with a soul that changes from moment to moment.