This is in conversation from Apple News. I'm Shimita Basso. Today, how to challenge your beliefs and change the way you think.

Malcolm Gladwell

would like you to try this little thought experiment.

Picture yourself 10, 20 years ago,

and really ask yourself.

Would you wear the things you were wearing back then?

Would you wear your hair the way you wore it in that picture?

Would you think about who your best friends were?

Are they the same?

Now, the answer for me, and probably a lot of you is absolutely not.

And what you'll discover of course is that huge amounts of your life have changed

of the way you present yourself to the world, the way you think, the circumstances circumstances of your life they've all changed.

So if we're okay with changing our sense of style, our friends, our interests, shouldn't

we be better at changing our minds about other things too?

Given that fact, how can you somehow think that on matters of opinion

you should remain resolutely in place even as everything else is in motion.

This is our first episode in a new series we're launching called Think Again. Over the next few weeks, we'll be rethinking old ideas about health and wellness, about gender equality, work and life, and exploring new ones.

Now, I wanted to start the series off with and exploring new ones.

Now I wanted to start the series off with Malcolm Gladwell,

the best-selling author of books like Outliers

and Talking to Strangers,

and the host of the podcast Revisionist History because he's something of an expert on

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