2022-08-13
26 分钟This is in conversation from Apple News.
I'm Shemit the Basu.
Today, how to challenge your beliefs and change the way you think.
Malcolm Gladwell would like you to try this little thought experiment.
Picture yourself 10, 20, 20 years ago and really ask yourself, would you wear.
The things you were wearing back then?
Would you wear your hair the way you wore it in that picture?
Would you think about who your best friends were?
Are they the same now?
The answer for me, and probably a lot of you, is absolutely not.
And what you'll discover, of course, is that huge amounts of your life have changed, of the way you present yourself to the world, the way you think, the circumstances of your life, the all changed.
So if we're okay with changing our sense of style, our friends, our interests, shouldn't we be better at changing our minds about other things too?
Given that fact, how can you somehow think that on matters of opinion, you should remain resolutely in place even as everything else is in motion?
This is our first episode in a new series we're launching called Think Again.
Over the next few weeks, we'll be rethinking old ideas about health and wellness, about gender equality, work and life, and exploring new ones.
Now, I wanted to start the series off with Malcolm Gladwell, the best selling author of books like Outliers and Talking to Strangers and the host of the podcast Revisionist History, because he's something of an expert on counterintuitive thinking.
So I asked him to get us ready for all the conversations ahead and to give us his best advice on how to be intentionally open minded.
There's various sort of habits the world imposes on us, rituals that have the effect of reinforcing this false notion of ourselves as stationary.
So a good example would be, I'm very much opposed to these kind of personality typing tests because they say, you know, someone will say to me, using the Myers Briggs, I'm an ent.
And my point is, well, how do you know you're always going to be that way?