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245 - The Conspiracy Theorist Who Changed His Mind - Tim Harford

You Are Not So Smart

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Deep Canvassing

There's more than one story towards the end of your book in which it seems that you are setting up to use your clever psychological hacks and conversational strategies to change somebody's mind. Do you think sometimes we're just too desperate to change other people? I do. In the introduction, I try to make it very clear that you really need to ask yourself why you want to do this because I had several experiences after getting what I felt was like, wow, I have this incredible superpower now.

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