1174: How to Reshape Your Beliefs and Break Free From Your Inner Propaganda with Owen Fitzpatrick

We need to start to see The fact that I have changed my mind on something as a positive, as a benefit. It shows strength of character to be able to do that. And the belief growth mindset is Comfortably recognizing that you can update your priors, as Bayesian theorists would say. You can update your beliefs, you can change your mind. We make up our minds too quickly. I believe we need to doubt ourselves more.

In order to believe in ourselves more. That's Owen Fitzpatrick. He's a social psychologist whose research into propaganda has taken him all over the world, including North Korea, Rwanda, and Afghanistan. He's also the author of ten books. His latest is inner propaganda. Getting hearts and minds to turbulent times. So you'll learn one.

Why to be wary of the temptations of certainty? Two. The three reasons people form and change their beliefs? And three. The four steps are rewiring nor beliefs.

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