🌱 This Is How To Change Someone’s Mind
be a partner not an adversary
building rapport and showing the other side you’re intellectually honest and fair
facts are the enemy
You don’t really know how the vast majority of stuff works
use scales - If Stalin’s Russia was a 9 out of 10 in governmental tyranny, where’s our country right now
Under what conditions could your belief be false?
Serious Beliefs Are About Values And Identity
Let them talk. Ask questions. Let them expose their ignorance. Do not cheer when that happens
It might be you, Nobody thinks they’re the problem – and that’s the problem
Changing other people’s minds is extremely hard; changing your own can be even harder