What would it take to push our current American culture towards valuing – perhaps even celebrating – changing one’s mind? Could we brand it as “rethinking” rather than “flip-flopping” or “being inconsistent” or “lacking conviction”?\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n
Maybe a good slogan would help.\u00a0 “Second thoughts are often better thoughts.<\/i>“<\/p>\n\n\n
Would it take support groups where adults sit in a circle and confess to each other, “Sometimes I’m wrong”?<\/p>\n\n\n
Perhaps we would need to start early in grade schools with curriculum teaching cognitive biases and logical fallacies. And how to recognize the soft spots in our own thinking.<\/p>\n\n\n
And maybe someday we will live in a society where Facebook fights are rare and they always end in “I see where you’re coming from” rather than “Just shut up, you brain-dead troll!”\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n
What would it take?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
What would it take to push our current American culture towards valuing – perhaps even celebrating – changing one’s mind? Could we brand it as “rethinking” rather than “flip-flopping” or “being inconsistent” or “lacking conviction”?\u00a0 Maybe a good slogan would help.\u00a0 “Second thoughts are often better thoughts.“ Would it take support groups where adults sit […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3997,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3996\/revisions\/3997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}