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How Minds Change - by David McRaney | Derek Sivers

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The psychology of how and why we believe. How we learn and change. The craft of doubt and persuasion. Insights into the social definition of truth. Epistemology. Certainty is a feeling not based on facts. Well-written with a nice balance of story-telling and deeper dives. Reality itself, as we experience it, isn’t a perfect one-to-one account of the world around us. The world, as you experience it, is a simulation running inside your skull. Each animal assumes that what it can perceive is all that can be perceived. Objective reality can never be fully experienced by any one creature. All reality is virtual. Consensus realities are mostly the result of geography. People who grow up in similar environments around similar people tend to have similar brains and thus similar virtual realities. When people who have been deaf for life receive implants that allow them to hear, they at first experience only static. With older people, the bombardment of new sensory experiences can feel unwelco

Reality itself, as we experience it, isn’t a perfect one-to-one account of the world around us. The world, as you experience it, is a simulation running inside your skull. Each animal assumes that what it can perceive is all that can be perceived. Objective reality can never be fully experienced by any one creature. All reality is virtual. Consensus realities are mostly the result of geography. People who grow up in similar environments around similar people tend to have similar brains and thus similar virtual realities. When people who have been deaf for life receive implants that allow them

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