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  • The Art of Changing Your Mind
  • Written by: James O'Brien
  • Narrated by: James O'Brien
  • Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (7 ratings)

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There's no point having a mind if you never change it.

In his best-selling How to Be Right, James provided an invigorating guide to how to talk to people with bad opinions. And yet the question he always gets asked is: 'if you're so sure about everything, haven't you ever changed your mind?'

In an age of us vs them, tribal loyalties and bitter divisions, the ability to change our minds may be the most important power we have. In this intimate, personal new book, James' focus shifts from talking to other people to how you talk to yourself about what you really think. Ranging across a dazzling array of big topics, cultural questions and political hot potatoes, James reveals where he has changed his mind, explains what convinced him and shows why all of us need to kick the tyres of our opinions, check our assumptions and make sure we really think what we think we do. 

Coloured with stories of changing minds from the incredible guests on his podcasts and callers to his radio show, and spanning big ideas like press regulation and Brexit through to playful subjects like football and dog-ownership, How Not to Be Wrong is packed with revelations, outrage, conversations and lots of humour. 

Because in a world that seems more divided than ever, if you can't change your own mind you'll never really be able to change anyone else's.

©2020 James O'Brien (P)2020 Penguin Audio

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Not what I expected but fantastic

On of the best books I have listened to in years just excellent! I would highly recommend it to anyone

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.."When you have privilege, equality feels like oppression."

...."When you have privilege, equality feels like oppression." It is hard to give up what you have and feel you deserve in the name of giving others equality.... "The older I get, the more convinced I become that you can’t argue anyone into changing their mind, you can simply question them into a place where they will be able to do it for themselves.” “It took me years to realise that most important [thing] is not how you speak but how you listen.”…

I’m not even from the UK but I tune in weekly to listen to James on LBC, I find him a brilliant communicator and enjoyed all the topics in this book.

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