A review by pennyriley
Stop Being Reasonable: How We Really Change Our Minds by Eleanor Gordon-Smith

3.0

3.5 stars. Oh for that ten point scale! An interesting short book that turned out not to be what I was really expecting. The subtitle: How We Really Change Our Minds, led me to expect that there would be clues as to how in fact, as to how we could better be prepared to move people from their mistaken views to our own more rational and reasonable ones. I'm being a little tongue in cheek here. But in fact I was left with the idea that I already had, that really it's impossible to get people to change their minds by talking to them. The only common factor among some of the stories here was that empirical, irrefutable evidence was the only thing that might possibly persuade someone to change their mind, and maybe not even then. Enjoyable, thought provoking, but not earth-shattering.