269 - Deconstructing How Minds Change - Michael Taft

You Are Not So Smart

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🗓️ 14 September 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

In celebration of How Minds Change, my new book, turning one-year-old, in this episode Michael Taft interviews David McRaney about how minds do and do not change, the process behind writing a book about that, and what he has learned since writing and promoting it.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the You Are Not So Smart Podcast.
0:27.6	Episode 269.
0:46.3	Welcome to the Oh Wait, I already did that.
0:48.5	I'm David McGranny.
0:49.5	I really do what I'm currently doing, which is just start the show by talking to you and
0:54.2	telling you things.
0:55.2	I prefer a cold open.
0:56.6	I like that straight to content style of making podcasts, but this episode is a bit different.
1:00.7	You will get right to the content in a second, but I want to briefly tell you what you're
1:04.1	about to hear and why.
1:05.9	Because I'm on the road.
1:06.9	I'm giving lectures right now about how mine's changed.
1:09.2	Lots of them.
1:10.2	I'm giving 12 lectures between now and December.
1:13.1	I'm recording this in September and of 2023.
1:18.2	And yeah, it's a lot.
1:20.9	I love this.
1:22.2	Something's happened here recently where my book, the book I wrote, How Mine's Change, which
1:26.3	came out a year ago, has really found its audience.
1:28.4	There's a lot of attention here currently, and I'm doing lectures in Nashville and Madison
1:32.8	in New York and New Jersey and San Francisco and Montreal and Denver.
1:36.2	I'm going to NASA at the end of the year, the Goddard Space Center.
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