How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion

I stumbled across the idea of street epistemology during the course Searching for Sustainable Livelihoods, and it has changed the way I talk with people about important issues. David McRaney’s core idea is: don’t approach someone with the goal of proving them wrong. Instead, stand shoulder to shoulder with them, look at the issue you're discussing, and try to find where you disagree and why.

Easier said than done. So, how do you actually do that?

Well, David explains this and much more in this episode of EconTalk. In just 90 minutes, you can learn how to be a better researcher, how to recognize your own biases more clearly, and how to have meaningful conversations with that one uncle who “knows better”—the one we all have.