Could we join forces?

I trust you, you trust me.

We're both on the same side here and the side is,

let's try to solve a mystery of why we would disagree on this.

I was wrong about a bunch of stuff but also so were you.

But I was right about some stuff and so were you, and you move forward in a way that debate doesn't allow for.

Were you thinking of skipping this episode of On the edge with Andrew Gold.

That's my new voice I'm trying out.

Influenced very much my British comedian Matt Berry.

Well, permit me to change your minds.

It's David McCraney, a journalist and self-described psychology nerd from Mississippi. Mississippi.

He has written for many top science and philosophy publications, including the Atlantic and psychology today, and

he's on to talk about his brand new book,

how minds change the new science of belief, opinion, and persuasion.

Get it in all the normal places.

I loved it, it contains some very real techniques for actually getting people to change

their minds about certain topics. We've all experienced that feeling of debating a friend or

foe and throwing facts at one another and neither person budging an inch.

We don't care, I don't care about your facts, I care about my feelings.

So we'll chat today about how we can get around that and why it is we make these ideas so sacred in our minds.

We connect ideas and beliefs we hold to our space lawyer,

I had a great time chatting to David. I hope you enjoy listening to him too and that you get some stuff you can use in real life. Coming up, our space lawyer, Franz von der Dunk,

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