How Do We Change Our Minds?

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"We are basically hard wired to divide the world into us and them, and to not like thems a whole lot," he says. "The domain that am most interested in these days is that change thing, of turning thems into uss." The peoples we hated in the past are allies now according to Sposki.

There are a lot of barriers to changing your mind: ego, overconfidence, inertia — and cost. Politicians who flip-flop get mocked; family and friends who cross tribal borders are shunned. But shouldn’t we be encouraging people to change their minds? And how can we get better at it ourselves?