I can’t stop thinking about this pic.twitter.com/OtKIuY6Yzv
1/ One of most important things I've learned: Severe personality problems find *camouflage.* No one thinks "I'm a sadist" or "I'm a malignant narcissist." They find a belief system/social group that validates their most hateful, destructive impulses & construes them as virtues.
This semester I had the pleasure to teach data visualization studio at an elite US university. Many students were interested in social justice (being 2020 in the US). Yet, many approached the topic in a way that was a bit naive ... (thread🧵) /1
- Not sure how much of an agenda the tweet author had here as I don't know him, but it's an interesting way of explaining how dogmatic or black and white thinking can be improved by trying to solve the problem, rather than state it.
Doubt-impedance matching. To persuade smart people, you have to start from a posture of genuine doubt that matches theirs and work both of you into belief together. Belief is a relationship variable, not an individual one. It is founded on mutual information, not private.