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Stop Being Reasonable

How We Really Change Our Minds

By: Eleanor Gordon-Smith

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Stop Being Reasonable

How We Really Change Our Minds

By: Eleanor Gordon-Smith

A thought-provoking exploration of how people really change their minds, and how persuasion is possible. In Stop Being Reasonable, Eleanor Gordon-Smith weaves a narrative that illustrates the limits of human reason. Here, she tells the stories of people who have radically altered their beliefs--from the woman who had to reckon with her husband's terrible secret to the man who finally left the cult he had been raised in since birth. Gordon-Smith shows how we can change the course of our own lives, and asks: what made someone change course? How should their reversals affect how we think about our own beliefs? And in an increasingly divided world, what do they teach us about how we might change the minds of others? Inspiring, perceptive, and moving, Stop Being Reasonable explores why resistance to evidence is often rooted in self-preservation and fear, why we feel shame in admitting we are wrong, and why who we believe is often more important than what we believe. This fascinating book will completely change the way you look at the power of persuasion.

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How We Really Change Our Minds

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How We Really Change Our Minds

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Hahalis and the Labour of Love

A Social Movement on Buka Island

By: Eleanor Rimoldi,Max Rimoldi

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Hahalis and the Labour of Love

A Social Movement on Buka Island

By: Eleanor Rimoldi,Max Rimoldi

This book studies the Hahalis Welfare Society, a Bougainville movement which worked for many years to maintain and reform traditional practices and to retain a degree of autonomy in a world of rapid political change and economic dependency. The first extended ethnography of Buka published in nearly sixty years, this book will be of particular interest to Melanesian specialists.

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Routledge

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1000323137

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9781000323139

Illogical Stories

How to Change Minds in an Unreasonable World

By: Eleanor Gordon-Smith

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Illogical Stories

How to Change Minds in an Unreasonable World

By: Eleanor Gordon-Smith

An entertaining guide to human nature that reveals how people really make big choices. What makes somebody change their world view completely? Why do some people refuse to alter their perceptions, despite prevailing evidence that says they should? And how can you persuade them to change their minds? Eleanor Gordon-Smith meets six ordinary people who made life-altering decisions and explores the limits of human reason and persuasion.

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1912854457

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9781912854455

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Stop Being Reasonable

Stop Being Reasonable

Stop Being Reasonable

Stop Being Reasonable

Hahalis and the Labour of Love

Hahalis and the Labour of Love

Illogical Stories

Illogical Stories

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