I read your posts every day. I would like to hear more about your debate with Hatem Bacian. I also am interested to find more resources about JVP. Thank you for your work.
Benjamin Franklin writes about how impossible it is to change another person's mind in his autobiography published 250 years ago. He says the only way to do it is to simply ask difficult to answer questions that get the other person to re-examine their firmly held assumptions on a minor, sub point of their worldview. Eventually, he says, some people will realize that they may have been inconsistent or incorrect in some aspect, and that will lead them to change their own opinions. He realized this after a difficult childhood when he understood that he always knew the right answer but could convince no one.
Hi Eric,
I read your posts every day. I would like to hear more about your debate with Hatem Bacian. I also am interested to find more resources about JVP. Thank you for your work.
Benjamin Franklin writes about how impossible it is to change another person's mind in his autobiography published 250 years ago. He says the only way to do it is to simply ask difficult to answer questions that get the other person to re-examine their firmly held assumptions on a minor, sub point of their worldview. Eventually, he says, some people will realize that they may have been inconsistent or incorrect in some aspect, and that will lead them to change their own opinions. He realized this after a difficult childhood when he understood that he always knew the right answer but could convince no one.
While I have read the multiple biographies of all the founding fathers, I had never read Franklin's autobiography. Thank you for pointing this out.