You're listening to serious inquiries only. Oh, Hello and welcome to serious inquiries. This is episode number 49.

I'm your host Thomas Smith.

All right, my guest today is Dr. Gleb-Sepersky.

Highly recommended, by the way,

and for good reason really cool conversation I think this can be

considered another in the series sort of an ongoing series I've had on changing minds

and can we even do that?

And if so, how and what should we focus on?

Really vital addition to that conversation.

So without further ado, here's my interview with Gleb Sapurski.

I'm speaking with Glebs-Seperski and I'm told that I happen to guess the pronunciation of your name correctly

You did right Thomas. How are you doing today? I'm doing great. Thank you.

Awesome. So I'm really interested to hear about your work and the Pro Truth Pledge,

and that's Pro Truth Pledge.org if anyone would like to go there now. But at first I'm kind of wondering a little bit about you, you know, who are you? How did you get into this? What's your background?

Sure. Happy to share. So my background is that I am been a scholar of decision sciences and I'm a professor at

Ohio State in decision sciences collaborative and so decision science collaborative in the history department and my research

concerns decision-making in politics and in business that's my focus and about I got my degree of five years ago and got the job here at Ohio State and I

Three years ago I founded a nonprofit-profit intentional insights

to promote wise decision-making in politics,

business, everyday life, everything like that.

I wrote books like find your purpose using science and other books talk about finding meaning and

purpose in life so making good decisions in that area and I've been a secular activist for decades.

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