#1282 Turi Munthe - Why We Think What We Think: The Unexpected Origins of Our Deepest Beliefs
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Hello everyone, welcome to a new episode of The Decenter. I'm your host as always, Ricardo Lopez, and today I'm joined by Turi Muntha. He's a journalist and policy analyst, turned media entrepreneur and writer. And today we're going to talk about his book, Why We Think What We Think, the Unexpected Origins of Our Deepest Belief. So Turi, welcome to the show.
It's a pleasure to have you one. Ricardo, it's a great pleasure to be here. And as a longtime fan, it's also a great privilege. So I'm pleased to meet you almost in real life. Well, thank you for the kind words.
So um, I mean, basically what you explore in your book is how people form their opinions and I mean what's behind it and all of that. So uh but first of all I would like to get I would like to ask you what is an opinion? I mean how do you uh treat uh an opinion? Do you treat it as a statement of fact or is it
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