Psychotherapy - Is There a Way to Stop Talking to You?

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When giving advice to someone you want them to act a certain way. You can generate reactants by either saying, i want you to feel this way. I want you to see that you're wrong, and i want you believe differently. Or there are other people out there who want you to do that,. If they just feel that that agency or autonomy roval. That's one thing that i calse it is to make a person feel that they should be ashamed for their current position. And if we create that feedbackl they 'ill walk away with more arguments in their mind than they had coming into the conversation. This is also what happens when we have a conversation with some when we

To the Founding Fathers it was free libraries. To the 19th century rationalist philosophers it was a system of public schools. Today it's access to the internet. Since its beginnings, Americans have believed that if facts and information were available to all, a democratic utopia would prevail. But missing from these well-intentioned efforts, says author and journalist David McRaney, is the awareness that people's opinions are unrelated to their knowledge and intelligence. In fact, he explains, the better educated we become, the better we are at rationalizing what we already believe. Listen as the author of How Minds Change speaks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about why it's so hard to change someone's mind, the best way to make it happen (if you absolutely must), and why teens are hard-wired not to take good advice from older people even if they are actually wiser.