780: How Minds Change and How to Change Minds with David McRaney

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🗓️ 30 June 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

David McRaney breaks down why it’s so difficult to change people’s minds—and shares powerful strategies to get others to open their minds.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) Why facts alone can’t persuade others

2) One simple question to make you more persuasive

3) A step-by-step guide to changing even the most stubborn minds

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— ABOUT DAVID —

Science journalist, podcaster, and internationally bestselling author David McRaney is an expert in the psychology of reasoning, decision making, and self-delusion. His wildly popular blog became the international bestselling book You Are Not So Smart, revealing and celebrating our irrational and thoroughly human behavior. His second bestseller, You Are Now Less Dumb, gives readers a fighting chance at outsmarting their brains. His most recent book, How Minds Change, is a brain-bending and big-hearted investigation into the science of belief, opinion, and persuasion.

David is an in-demand speaker whose work has been featured in The Atlantic and many others.

He also created and hosted Exploring Genius: In-Depth Study of Brilliant Minds, an audio documentary for Himalaya, and is working on a TV series about how to better predict the psychological impact of technological disruption.

• Book: How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion

• Website: YouAreNotSoSmart.com

• Personal website: DavidMcRaney.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Book: Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming by Bjorn Lomborg

• Book: Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain by David Eagleman

• Book: Joe by Larry Brown

• Book: The Enigma of Reason by Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber

• Video: Why We Fight: Prelude to War

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0:00.0	Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast.
0:04.2	The show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required
0:08.6	to flourish at work.
0:10.1	Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money with your host, Pete McIdoz.
0:16.1	Hello, thanks for joining us for episode 780 with David McRainey.
0:23.4	David has studied in depth how minds change and how you can change them.
0:28.8	He does such a great job.
0:29.8	So you'll learn one, why facts alone can't persuade others, two, a simple question
0:34.1	to make you more persuasive, and three, a step-by-step guide to changing even the most
0:38.4	stubborn of minds.
0:39.4	So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to items that
0:42.5	we've mentioned, please visit us at awesometyourjob.com slash EP780.
0:48.4	Interesting note on this one.
0:49.6	We had a lot of fun and our calendars, I guess, were open, so we went long, and I've broken
0:54.8	this into two pieces.
0:56.4	The first one is a typical episode, and the second is a roleplay that we did in which
1:02.4	I roleplay the character of someone who is skeptical about climate change, and we watch
1:09.1	David go through a systematic process by which he is doing some mind-changing.
1:15.1	So we have to see what that looks like as a demo.
1:17.3	So if that's of interest to you and the interest of having this episode not be way longer
1:22.9	than the others, that is in a second part.
1:26.3	So you can see that right next to this episode in your podcast playing app and tap it there.
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