Adam Grant
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2,364 appearances
12 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 11 Aug
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And what I love about this is there's some research by Peter Coleman which shows you don't even have to start on the issue that you disagree on.
In one of uh Peter's um bodies of work, he he runs this difficult conversations lab where
He has people deliberately taken because they hold opposing views on a charged issue.
And he randomly assigns some of them to read an article about a completely different issue.
And instead of presenting that as one side, the other side, he presents it as here are all the different shades of gray on that issue.
And if you, for example, just get an article about the complexity of people's views on climate change, then you were
dramatically more likely to find common ground with somebody who disagrees with you about guns.
And so I think the maybe the broader lesson here is that we need to complexify our thinking.
We need to take these issues that are oversimplified and look for the nuance in them.
And that's where we have more thoughtful conversations.
I I think there's
You know, it's funny, I think there is I I've seen a lot of people doing this, but I also probably hear about it disproportionately because, you know, there are think again readers and dis and listeners who, you know, who reach out and say, Hey, I tried this, here's what happened.
I think the of everything that I've recommended and studied, the one question that I've gotten the most traction with is when I ask people, like let's say I'm talking even to a flat earther or somebody who thinks that like horoscopes um and zodiac signs are predictive of anything, uh which empirically they're not.
I'm sorry to say for people who are fans of astrology.
When I talk with people,
people who who believe in things that have just been empirically falsified, that are not supported by facts, the best conversation that I have is asking what evidence would change your mind?
And what I love about that is it grounds the conversation in facts.
Right.
I want to know, okay, what would you have to see?
What proof, what data would you find convincing?
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