Changing Our Minds: Why we should admit when we're wrong

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🗓️ 3 May 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Original broadcast date: Friday, December 3, 2021. Admitting we're wrong is painful — even seen as a sign of weakness. But what if we take a more flexible approach? This hour: how rethinking ideas can be good for our brains and our relationships. Guests include former GOP congressman Bob Inglis, organizational psychologist Adam Grant, and civil rights activist Loretta J. Ross.

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0:17.8	Hey, it's Manouche.
0:19.7	You are about to hear an episode on the value of changing your mind.
0:25.1	I've been thinking a lot about this lately because in it we talk about the great
0:29.8	thinker and behavioral economist Daniel Kahneman.
0:34.0	He recently passed away, and along with winning a Nobel Prize,
0:39.4	writing more than a dozen books,
0:41.6	he was known for his utter joy at being proven wrong. He loved
0:48.1	it when someone changed his mind. So in honor of the late Nobel Prize winning Daniel Kahneman, I hope you enjoy this episode.
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