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180. Andy Norman — Mental Immunity: Infectious Ideas, Mind Parasites, and the Search for a Better Way to Think
The Michael Shermer Show
How to Inoculate Your Mind Against Bad Ideas
Play with ideas so that that's your light touch. Just kind of entertain lots of ideas as if it's more interesting or a game, rather than defining yourself by ne of them. We need to get over the idea that our minds are agents and their contents are merely inert. Ideas are alive in much the way that viruses are alive. When you take on an idea and make it your own, your mind changes. Your mind changes in such a way that that ideas can delude and seduce and addict and confuse and disorient they are not. I think when we get, when we start taking ideas too seriously, we start to get defensive and angry... engaging one another in dia
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