Julian Barnes opens Changing My Mind, his brisk new book about our unruly intellects, with a quote famously attributed to the economist John Maynard Keynes: “When the facts change, I change my mind.” ...

App for Anyone Who Wants To change Their Life "Control your mind. If you can control your mind, you can change your life." This motivational speech will inspire you to take charge of your thoughts and ...

Leadership is about pushing new ideas; it is about mobilizing and motivating people and getting them to act as a collective team. It’s about projecting commitment and expressing enthusiasm to get ...

The more persuasive a model is trained to be, the higher the likelihood that it'll hallucinate, researchers find.

A few years back, I wrote a couple of pieces for this blog on how to change people’s minds, even if what they believe is categorically wrong. Cook and Lewandowsky’s (2011) debunking handbook was ...

"Those who can’t change their minds can’t change anything." — George Bernard Shaw "Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets ...

The United Nations, a fraternity of 193 member states dedicated to “shared solutions that benefit all of humanity,” is a significant accomplishment for international diplomacy. But from there, it is ...

When I’m teaching new poets about how to think about where a poem might be inside themselves, I often offer up the sonnet “Bright Star,” by John Keats. It begins: For those who don’t know the sonnet ...

As a woman of a certain age — and really ever since I hit puberty and my baby-making parts were suddenly subject to public debate — I’ve been told over and over again that I will “change my mind” ...

I am very happy to be the mom of one child and don’t want another. My labor and recovery was very difficult. I struggled with ...