Re: How are minds changed?

[reimerd]

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Another fascinating reflection, Jon! On the "presenting" issue, it reminded me immediately of a video I saw some years back on a bicycle that steers the opposite way from normal. It looks there are plenty of others on Youtube like it! Fascinating how the brain just ... "flipped"!

On your deeper point, I wonder if there is some intersection with Marshall Rosenberg's "nonviolent communication"? That's kind of an intuitive connection I'm making with your final couple of paragraphs, and I probably need to think a bit more about why I made the association. But there it is, FWIW!

[jericson]

The bicycle analogy is almost exactly like swapping the Y-axis. I will say it didn't take quite so much time to adjust on the computer. Probably it's easier because the aiming system isn't quite so interconnected balancing on a bike. That moment when the change clicked in really resonates. It also reminds me of learning to back up with a trailer or learning to steer a ship.

I'm not familiar with nonviolent communication, but it does seem like there is an intersection with something I do know: active listening. Whatever you call it, really understanding an opposing point of view is an act of emotional labor.