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Failure to Change One's Opinion and the Self-Serving Bias (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_793)

The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad

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Science, Education, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 12 February 2025

⏱️ 2 minutes

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0:00.0

Gad Sadd is a visiting professor and a global ambassador at Northwood University.

0:06.0

Professor said they say insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.

0:13.5

Isn't that insane then what the Democrats keep saying over and over?

0:19.4

So there are two features that are really regrettable when it comes to the architecture

0:23.6

of the human mind.

0:25.6

Number one is how difficult it is to get someone to change their anchored position.

0:31.6

I could show you a tsunami of evidence, and yet you'll still go, la, la, la, I don't want to hear it.

0:36.6

That's exactly what the

0:38.1

Democrats are doing second regrettable feature of the architecture of the human mind is

0:42.0

something called the self-serving bias which is we tend to attribute successes

0:46.3

internally and failures externally so if I did well on the exam it's because I'm

0:51.2

smart if I did poorly on the exam it it's because Professor Sadd is a mean

0:55.8

professor. That's exactly what the Democrats are doing, which is none of their failures

1:01.1

stem from their failed policy positions. It must be outside to them. So they are just

1:07.7

exactly engaging what a psychologist as myself would expect.

1:12.7

That was a brilliant piece of analysis, and it explains why I have such a hard time changing my mind and blaming other people.

1:21.6

How do you, and I'm not asking for me personally, but how does one, Professor said, grow up and get over this?

1:30.0

You know, Thomas Sowell, the famous economist, used to be a Marxist. And then once he was asked

1:37.8

later in his life, what is it that made you realize that your Marxist views were wrong and

1:43.6

you should be for free

1:44.5

markets?

1:45.6

He gave a one-word answer, facts.

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