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Deep canvassing, street epistemology, and other tools of persuasion (with David McRaney)

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

CHAPTER

The Role of Reasoning in Decision Making

For instance, there are times when we're really truth focused. For example, let's say you're trying to get to a wedding and you're late and you're really trying to figure out, well, how do I get to the wedding as fast as possible? Right? So that would be in a scout mindset in that case because you really are trying tofigure out the truth. Whereas if you're at the wedding and someone brings up a politician that you hate and they're talking about how that person's really great and all the reasons for that, there you're probably not really being responsive to the reasons that they're giving. They're just their attempt to turn a feeling into something

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