How to Deal With the Introspection Allusion in Persuasion

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Ike: I've become more passionate about this than anything i've ever been into bo and it was through the same thing. You can't start with facts or conclusions, you have to work backwards through the processing chain. He says he never had considered that in persuasion because like most people, it feels like when something feels obvious to you. It feels like itshould be obvious to everyone else, though you're unaware of the attitudes and motivations that are causing that to seem apparent to you. And so it becomes this terrible a battle of a, what, of obviousness and naive realism? Ah, and it, if you are not aware of this, you don't meta cognate

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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