The document discusses why facts often fail to change people's minds. It provides several reasons for this: 1) Confirmation bias causes people to only accept information that confirms their existing beliefs and reject anything contradictory. 2) People are more influenced by social approval from their peers than logic or evidence. Changing beliefs risks losing social ties. 3) Minor differences in beliefs can seem threatening, making people defensive and less open to changing their views. It is difficult to change someone's mind by directly opposing their beliefs.

1. TOPIC:
WHY FACTS DON’T
CHANGE OUR MINDS
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2. WHY FACTS DON’T CHANGE OUR
MINDS
We spot the weakness in the other people’s arguments, but we’re blind to our own.This is
actually a fact and what everyone behave like.The confirmation bias is an example of this fact.
As Kolbert writes:” providing people with accurate info doesn’t seem to help; they simply
discount it “
So due to confirmation bias; people tend to adopt the information that supports their beliefs &
reject information that disagree/conflict them.
Example:
there was many researches about how facts don’t change our mind, one if them is that when a
researchers bring some student whom studying the criminal cases, then they told the students
what is their opinion about capital punishment to stop the crimes; so the was that half of the
students were in the favor of it and thought that it prevent crimes but the other half were against
it & thought that it had no effect on crime

3. FOLLOWING EXAMPLE
• Then the researchers give both of the team some time to rethink about their decision then
they were asked again same the question; but the result in the end was that those who’d
started out pre-capital punishment were now even more in favor of it; those who’d opposed it
are even more hostile.
ChangingYourThinking :
• Our thought control how we feel & behave
When you develop a healthy pattern of thinking and believing about the troublesome issues in
your life, your behaviors change and your life improves.
Remember, if you always think the way you have always thought, you will always get what you
have always got. If you want to have a better life you must change your thinking.
Your thinking habits have got you where you are today, if you change your thinking you will
change your life

4. THE LOGIC OF FALSE BELIEFS
First, what are false beliefs?
 They live in our subconscious and since 90 percent of our actions stem from our
subconscious, our false beliefs play a huge role in nearly everything we do.Also since they live
in our subconscious, we may not be aware of them and how they affect our daily lives.
 We don’t always believe things because they are correct. Sometimes we believe things
because they make us look good to the people we care about.
 Our behavior stems from our beliefs.And what our life looks like is a result of our collective
behavior. So if we change or dissolve our beliefs, especially our false beliefs, we can change our
behavior and ultimately change our life.

5. RESULT OF EXPERT’S RESEARCHES
Developmental psychologists have found that people’s beliefs are more likely to be reinforced
by the positive or negative reactions they receive in response to an opinion, task or interaction,
than by logic, reasoning and scientific data.
“If you think you know a lot about something, even though you don’t, you’re less likely to be
curious enough to explore the topic further, and will fail to learn how little you know,”
“If you use a crazy theory to make a correct prediction a couple of times, you can get stuck in
that belief and may not be as interested in gathering more information,”
"People are embraced or condemned according to their beliefs, so one function of the mind
may be to hold beliefs that bring the belief-holder the greatest number of allies, protectors, or
disciples, rather than beliefs that are most likely to be true.”

6. FACTS DON'T CHANGE OUR MINDS.
FRIENDSHIP DOES
• Convincing someone to change their mind is really the process of convincing them to change
their tribe. If they abandon their beliefs, they run the risk of losing social ties.You can’t expect
someone to change their mind if you take away their community too.
• The way to change people’s minds is to become friends with them, to integrate them into
your tribe, to bring them into your circle. Now, they can change their beliefs without the risk
of being abandoned socially.

7. THE SPECTRUM OF BELIEFS
• Years ago, Ben Casnocha mentioned an idea to me that I haven't been able to shake:The
people who are most likely to change our minds are the ones we agree with on 98 percent of
topics.
• If someone you know, like, and trust believes a radical idea, you are more likely to give it merit,
weight, or consideration.You already agree with them in most areas of life. Maybe you should
change your mind on this one too. But if someone wildly different than you proposes the same
radical idea, well, it's easy to dismiss them as a crackpot.
• One way to visualize this distinction is by mapping beliefs on a SPECTRUM.

8. CONTD…
• When it comes to changing people's minds, it is very difficult to jump from one side to another.
You can't jump down the spectrum.You have to slide down it.
• Any idea that is sufficiently different from your current worldview will feel threatening.And the
best place to ponder a threatening idea is in a non-threatening environment.As a result,
BOOKS are often a better vehicle for transforming beliefs than conversations or debates.
• Books resolve this tension.With a book, the conversation takes place inside someone's head
and without the risk of being judged by others. It's easier to be open-minded when you aren't
feeling defensive

9. WHY THE FALSE IDEAS PERSIST
• To me, everything we do that doesn’t have A positive return is A bad idea.
• So bad ideas will continues until you stop talking for the bad ideas, but if you continues
talking then the bad ideas are continues to live.
• The number of individuals who believe an idea is directly proportional to the number of
times it's been repeated throughout the last year even if the idea is false.

10. SO HOW TO CHANGE MY BAD IDEAS
The idea of negativity corresponds to a positive idea,
If you have a negative idea, leave it immediately, do not make it take your time and
your mind, and free it from your mind
Change your environment

11. THE INTELLECTUAL SOLDIER
Julia Galef spent years studying this exact kind of certainty
We compares a soldiers, having motivations to survive, protecting ourselves and our side,
pursuing to defeat the enemy.
Then we compares a scouts, who’s job is not to attack or defend, but to understand. Scouts go
out, map the terrain, plan strategies, and ultimately want to know what’s really out there.
It’s important to them to have all the information needed to be as accurate as possible.
Julia Galef argues that good judgment, making accurate predictions and good decisions, is
mostly about what mindset we’re in.

12. BE KIND FIRST, BE RIGHT LATER
• The word “kind” originated from the word “kin.”
• “Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”—
Mark Twain
• Kindness is very powerful when it comes to building relationships,both at work and in our personal lives.
Kindness is an act of love and respect that helps create a better life, a life full of hope and happiness.
• To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks
but a special heart that listens.
• When you are kind to someone it means you are treating him or her like family.

13. WHY IS IT GOOD TO BE KIND?
• The most obvious benefit of kindness is that you make others feel good.And in making
others feel good, you inspire them to want to do something kind for you or for
someone else.When you commit a kind act, those around you will take note and your
kindness can have a ripple effect.

14. IMPRONTANT POINTS
• “Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third
is to be kind.” ― Henry James
• kindness are not signs of weakness and desperation, but rather manifestations of strength and
resolution.”
• My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.”

15. REFERENCE
• Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds
• by James Clear | Decision Making, Life Lessons