In the book I say that I think we need to recognize the value of revelation. We should never assume that just because someone said a terrible accident and then testifies to the value of their new life is somehow confused or has experience in cognitive dissonance, he says. He also wants us to take a stance involving epistemic humility and then from that stance look at what kinds of decision models we might be able to build. In addition I'm a huge fan of like the psychological and social sciencesI'm doing a lot of collaborative work with people at Yale and Harvard and MIT on problems that have come out of this discussion of transformative experience.

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