ATG 80: How to change your crazy uncle’s mind about politics - My conversation with David McRaney

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🗓️ 4 July 2022

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Can people actually change their minds? Why does anyone do anything? And what do genies (yes, like the wish-granting-guys-that-live-in-lamps) have to do with it?

David McRaney is an author, journalist, lecturer, and the creator of the blog You Are Not So Smart, which became an internationally bestselling book, later followed by You Are Now Less Dumb. David currently hosts the popular You Are Not So Smart podcast and speaks internationally about irrational thinking and delusion. He joins me for an unforgettable conversation about opening a pet store after a life-altering car crash, the truth about people with off-the-chart IQs, the origin of birthday parties, and so much more. For more from David, check out his latest book, How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone and welcome to the All It Takes is a Gold Podcast.
0:16.9	The best place in the entire world including all of Canada to learn how to build new thoughts,
0:22.1	new actions and new results.
0:23.1	I'm your host John A. Cup and today I'm joined by David McRainey.
0:27.6	Who's that?
0:28.6	So glad you asked.
0:29.8	David McRainey is the author of How Minds Change, the surprising science of belief, opinion
0:34.4	and persuasion.
0:35.7	He's an author, journalist, lecturer, and the creator of the blog, you are not so smart,
0:41.0	which has become a massive book as well, later followed by the book You Are Now Less Dumb.
0:46.4	David currently hosts the popular You Are Not So Smart podcast and speaks internationally
0:50.6	about irrational thinking and delusion.
0:53.2	Before finding internet fame, David graduated with a degree in journalism from the University
0:57.4	of Southern Mississippi and cut his teeth covering Hurricane Katrina on the Gulf Coast
1:01.8	and in the Pine Belt region of the Deep South.
1:04.4	He's been a bee reporter and editor, a photographer, a voiceover artist, a television host, a digital
1:09.0	content manager and he also owned two pet stores.
1:12.1	We talk about that in the episode.
1:13.8	He's done everything.
1:16.0	This episode was so fascinating to me because we talk a lot about his process as a writer,
1:21.2	a lot about how the brain works, the book really digs into science and there's so many
1:27.4	fascinating things in this interview, I think you're going to absolutely love it.
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