In this episode, Jed explains the particular perspective that brought into focus a number of connection mindsets, each of which speaks to its own chunk of new common ground. He shares pivotal experiences that led him to that perspective - experiences that revealed how minds can be changed. He explains that once he started looking at human interactions from that perspective, everything he saw just made more and more sense. Stepping into one or more of these mindsets would even bring clarity to things that had been confounding, things like how people can be immune to overwhelming evidence that goes against their position, and how intelligent people can come to believe ludicrous things. Lucille Ball and cinnamon also play into this, but you’ll need to listen for that to make sense.

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