E201 | How to Change Brains, Minds and Culture with David McRaney

How can you change someone’s mind? Don’t miss David McRaney, a science journalist fascinated with brains, minds, and culture, explain all in this podcast. 

In this episode, David, author of three books, discusses his latest book ‘How Minds Change’. He lifts the lid on how people who believe in flat Earth come to believe in flat Earth; how people who are anti vaxxers come to have that as their belief system; as well as explain the Dunning Kruger effect. 

Why are these insights relevant to the modern workplace? 

Because the results of these studies have far reaching implications, including how you hold your management team meetings, your all hands meeting, how you hire, how you might want to hire to avoid bias, as well as overcome the heuristics that are in place that make you make snap decisions on people. 

This is a fantastic episode, we’re sure you’ll enjoy it as much as we did.

On today’s podcast:

• How to change minds
• The people swap experiment
• Difference in gender confidence
• The Dunning Kruger effect
• The Halo effect at work
• Understanding pluralistic ignorance

Links:

• www.youarenotsosmart.com
• Twitter – @davidmcraney
• LinkedIn – David McRaney
• Website – David McRaney