Motivational Interviews, Interviews With Darrel Davis

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i am absolutely deeply obsessed with the science of persuasion, which i have been for years. And if you discover what works through a persuasive technique, it's going to work with any kind of brain. We form our beliefs partly based on our group identities and the values that that group has. It's tempting to think that in order to persuade people to something, we just need to give them more facts,. If we can just give them more information, we can solve the problem. H but i think so many of us realize that is not the case. These small behaviours that people engage in every day, write, for example, the decision of whether or not to wear a mask, actually carries

A few weeks ago, Maya Shankar and her team reached out to me noting their new show, A Slight Change of Plans, which explores how various fascinating people have changed their minds, often after something unexpected happened in the story of their lives, overlapped in its interests and goals with You Are Not So Smart.

One of her guests, Megan Phelps-Roper, was recently a guest on this show, and Daryl Davis is one of her guests who I’ve long wanted to feature on this podcast. So, as podcasters do from time to time, Maya wondered if she could come on this podcast to promote her podcast, and seeing as our interests and obsessions and work and overall mission aligned so strongly, I said, "Absolutely, I would love that," and this is that episode

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