People's deeply held beliefs are surprisingly surface-level

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Misc People's deeply held beliefs are surprisingly surface-level Try to change people's minds more Andy Masley Mar 09, 2025 231 29 33 Share A lot of people (myself included) have a lot of internal illusions about how deep our deeply held beliefs go. I used to think that if someone were structuring their lives around a specific idea, and describing it as one of their most deeply held beliefs, their process for getting to it looked like this: I have investigated and compared this contentious belief to others and tested it against the world, and after a lot of careful diligent thought I have deci

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