Eleanor Gordon Smith

I mean, you've put your finger on a large part of the problem just there, which is that we have this kind of self-congratulatory notion that we are reasonable, that the people who we disagree with are the ones who aren't being reasonable, and therefore we're the ones who must be being reasonable.

I mean, you've put your finger on a large part of the problem just there, which is that we have this kind of self-congratulatory notion that we are reasonable, that the people who we disagree with are the ones who aren't being reasonable, and therefore we're the ones who must be being reasonable.

I mean, you've put your finger on a large part of the problem just there, which is that we have this kind of self-congratulatory notion that we are reasonable, that the people who we disagree with are the ones who aren't being reasonable, and therefore we're the ones who must be being reasonable.

But part of my motivation in calling on us to let go of that thought is that I think it turns out to be really much more complicated than we might have imagined to work out what it in fact is to be reasonable. So we have a lot of

But part of my motivation in calling on us to let go of that thought is that I think it turns out to be really much more complicated than we might have imagined to work out what it in fact is to be reasonable. So we have a lot of

But part of my motivation in calling on us to let go of that thought is that I think it turns out to be really much more complicated than we might have imagined to work out what it in fact is to be reasonable. So we have a lot of

pretty simple slogan type ideas about what it might be to be reasonable, things that boil off to pretty simple injunctions like you should doubt more or you shouldn't believe what you've been told or you should be thinking with your brain and not with your emotions.

pretty simple slogan type ideas about what it might be to be reasonable, things that boil off to pretty simple injunctions like you should doubt more or you shouldn't believe what you've been told or you should be thinking with your brain and not with your emotions.

pretty simple slogan type ideas about what it might be to be reasonable, things that boil off to pretty simple injunctions like you should doubt more or you shouldn't believe what you've been told or you should be thinking with your brain and not with your emotions.

And these ideas, I think, if you push on them even a little bit, they turn out to be much more complicated than we might have imagined. And those turn out to not be necessarily the best rules for what it in fact is to think well or to change your mind well.

And these ideas, I think, if you push on them even a little bit, they turn out to be much more complicated than we might have imagined. And those turn out to not be necessarily the best rules for what it in fact is to think well or to change your mind well.

And these ideas, I think, if you push on them even a little bit, they turn out to be much more complicated than we might have imagined. And those turn out to not be necessarily the best rules for what it in fact is to think well or to change your mind well.

For me, the interest in how people change their minds is really quite a personal one. And it started, I guess, about three years ago now when I started working on this catcalling social experiment. And basically, the idea was that I would go out. I'm a radio reporter in a previous life. And the idea was that I would go out and take a recorder and a microphone and a certain amount of

For me, the interest in how people change their minds is really quite a personal one. And it started, I guess, about three years ago now when I started working on this catcalling social experiment. And basically, the idea was that I would go out. I'm a radio reporter in a previous life. And the idea was that I would go out and take a recorder and a microphone and a certain amount of

For me, the interest in how people change their minds is really quite a personal one. And it started, I guess, about three years ago now when I started working on this catcalling social experiment. And basically, the idea was that I would go out. I'm a radio reporter in a previous life. And the idea was that I would go out and take a recorder and a microphone and a certain amount of

familiar skills as an interviewer and I would go out and I would try to interview men who cackled me and more specifically I would try to change their minds.

familiar skills as an interviewer and I would go out and I would try to interview men who cackled me and more specifically I would try to change their minds.

familiar skills as an interviewer and I would go out and I would try to interview men who cackled me and more specifically I would try to change their minds.

I would wait for them to yell something kind of vulgar or sexual or crass or you know just the stupid things that men yell when they're hanging out of the windows of cars or they've had a couple drinks and I'd go over and I'd say like come back, tell me what you just said, tell me what you were hoping for when you said it and most importantly tell me what I would need to say in order to get you to change your mind about that.

I would wait for them to yell something kind of vulgar or sexual or crass or you know just the stupid things that men yell when they're hanging out of the windows of cars or they've had a couple drinks and I'd go over and I'd say like come back, tell me what you just said, tell me what you were hoping for when you said it and most importantly tell me what I would need to say in order to get you to change your mind about that.