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📚 Book Club Event: Dive into 'How Minds Change' by David McRaney - Chapter 6 to End 🧠
Join us for a focused discussion on the initial chapters of 'How Minds Change' at Fremont library in Seattle on Jan 28th, 2024, from 11 am to 1 pm. Explore the intriguing ideas presented in the first five chapters, connect with fellow readers, and savor plant-based delights.
🌱 Date: March 10, 2024
⏰ Time: 2 pm - 4 pm
📍 Location: Queen Anne Branch - Seattle Public Library
Explore the intriguing ideas presented and connect with fellow readers. RSVP now and bring your insights for a deep dive into this thought-provoking book!
Since the library is pretty close to Sushi Samurai, we could walk there and grab a bite to eat afterwards if people are interested.
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A brain-bending investigation of why some people never change their minds—and others do in an instant—by the bestselling author of You Are Not So Smart
What made a prominent conspiracy-theorist YouTuber finally see that 9/11 was not a hoax? How do voter opinions shift from neutral to resolute? Can widespread social change only take place when a generation dies out? From one of our greatest thinkers on reasoning, HOW MINDS CHANGE is a book about the science, and the experience, of transformation.
When self-delusion expert and psychology nerd David McRaney began a book about how to change someone's mind in one conversation, he never expected to change his own. But then a diehard 9/11 Truther's conversion blew up his theories—inspiring him to ask not just how to persuade, but why we believe, from the eye of the beholder.
Delving into the latest research of psychologists and neuroscientists, HOW MINDS CHANGE explores the limits of reasoning, the power of groupthink, and the effects of deep canvassing.
Told with McRaney's trademark sense of humor, compassion, and scientific curiosity, it's an eye-opening journey among cult members, conspiracy theorists, and political activists, from Westboro Baptist Church picketers to LGBTQ campaigners in California – that ultimately challenges us to question our own motives and beliefs. In an age of dangerous conspiratorial thinking, can we rise to the occasion with empathy?
An expansive, big-hearted journalistic narrative, HOW MINDS CHANGE reaches surprising and thought-provoking conclusions, to demonstrate the rare but transformative circumstances under which minds can change.