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Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds
When all that binds us is what we believe rather than who we are, changing our mind or challenging the collective ideology is risky.
Brené Brown • Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone
Facts Don’t Form Beliefs: “I believe in climate change,” Kahneman said. “I believe in the people who tell me there is climate change. The people who don’t believe in climate change, they believe in other people.” This is how we form all beliefs. We don’t examine evidence and reach conclusions. We trust people we like, then adopt their views. “The... See more
Pascal and Karlovich’s research suggests that simply presenting challenging evidence is not enough. We must meet in ways that allow us to ask and understand how people arrived at their conclusions. We must see that other people are using different priors and processes, so that we can see what seems certain to us seems certain to others in a
... See moreDavid McRaney • How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion
We don’t just use our previous experiences to maintain our balance on the tightrope between being dangerously wrong and dangerously ignorant, we use the people around us; when they refuse to change their minds, it’s a greater barrier to change than whatever stubbornness our dogmas demand.
David McRaney • How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion
Part of the problem is cognitive laziness. Some psychologists point out that we’re mental misers: we often prefer the ease of hanging on to old views over the difficulty of grappling with new ones. Yet there are also deeper forces behind our resistance to rethinking. Questioning ourselves makes the world more unpredictable. It requires us to admit
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