42: How Minds Change

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Dima and Slava have read "How Minds Change" by David McRaney and discuss how relatively diverse set of stories come (or do not come) together to give a practical framework for influencing others.

• Follow-up: do not sabotage your future self!
• A book or a collection of stories?
• Deep canvassing method appears to have connections to best practices in business communication
• We do not experience reality directly – our constructs reality for us
• Assimilation and accommodation of new infromation
• Peer pressure and our tribal ancestry
• Are face-to-face communities stronger than purely online communities?
• Is arguing an integral part of human nature?
• Psychology research and the not uncommon fakery of communication
• Problem with popular science: more popular than science
• Honest persuasion is a two-way street: both minds are likely to be influenced