Dr. David Eagleman

And if I could just shout in all capital letters on X loudly enough, everyone would come to agree with me.

Essentially, everyone thinks this deep down, irrespective of what their political position is.

And that's weird that we can't see the fence lines of our own internal models.

So I think it's really important that this gets built all the way down into our education system at the high school level, maybe even junior high, where we understand the limitations of our own model.

We understand how to try to understand other people's models.

We understand when it's appropriate to blind our biases, you know, in the way that, for

do a blind audition of a musician behind a curtain.

So you can't have the opportunity for discrimination based on gender or race or anything else.

You're just hearing, oh, that was a great oboe player.

And so you, um, things like that.

Um, and I also think that there's another technique that might be super useful here, which is, and this is, I've been exploring this a lot lately, what I'm calling the complexification of relationships, meaning, um,

If you have something in common with someone and then you find out later that that person has a very different opinion than you do on some hot button political issue, you're more willing to listen to them because you're already pals on the, you know, you go surfing together, you know, whatever.

You like the same sports team or whatever.

You're more willing to listen.

My example for this is the Iroquois Native Americans who were up in sort of northern Wisconsin area.

Five tribes, they all killed each other for years and years.

They had a new leader come in, this guy, Dena Gowata, who came to be known as the great peacemaker.

What he did is he said, look, you've got these five tribes.

I'm going to assign each person membership in a clan.

So let's say we're in the same tribe, but you're a member of the beaver clan.