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Changed My Mind

26 Episodes

49 minutes | 5 months ago
Realising America's Criminal Justice System Was Broken with Jordan Blashek and Chris Haugh
The Authors of Union: a Search for Common Ground on how an American road trip woke them up to the failings in the criminal justice system and the limitations of beloved media outlets.   
43 minutes | 6 months ago
Danny Finkelstein on Changing Political Allies
Danny Finkelstein, associate editor of the Times and Conservative peer, talks to us about why being able to clearly see both sides of an argument is important but can also feel debilitating in a world that craves certainty. He shares his lessons from switching parties and why it is critical to reduce the cost of people changing their minds.
46 minutes | 6 months ago
Peter Geoghegan on Unaccountability and Returning Home
Peter Geoghegan, author of Democracy for Sale and investigative journalist, left Ireland as a young man desperate to get away but has returned in lockdown to find a country much changed. He tells us why, from his childhood bedroom, and explains the need to dig deeper into unaccountable money in politics, in the UK as well as the US.
50 minutes | 6 months ago
Getting Less Liberal About Prostitution with Helen Lewis
Helen Lewis, a journalist at the Atlantic and author of Difficult Women: the History of Feminism in 11 Fights, talks about how she came to question her previous liberal beliefs on prostitution, a former Labour MP who cried after receiving an apology for being deselected when she came out in the 70s, the limits of unconscious bias training, and more. 
35 minutes | 7 months ago
Deciding That People Should Have a Platform with Kajal Odedra
The Director of Change.org in the UK Kajal Odedra talks about realising no platforming tended to backfire, her changing relationship with her own identity and how Change.org's supporters come from a much broader base than most people imagine. 
49 minutes | 7 months ago
Conflicting Identities with Jamie Susskind
Author of Future Politics, Jamie Susskind, left the Labour Party after 10 years of activism due to antisemitism. He tells us what happened, why he is on the cusp of going back and what politicians need to think about now to prepare for the tech of the future.    
48 minutes | 8 months ago
On Realising Mainstreaming Is Not Enough with Derek Bardowell
Author Derek Bardowell used to think mainstreaming would be enough to tackle racism. Over decades over work he's realise that on it's own, it is far from enough.
39 minutes | 8 months ago
Becoming Friends With Your Arch Enemy with Leah Garces
When Leah Garces sat opposite Craig Watts in his living room it was an unlikely occurrence. Leah, a vegan and CEO at Mercy for Animals, did not expect to have much in common with the factory farmer she had spent years campaigning against. Yet, she and Watts were to become unexpected allies in the fight to improve animal welfare. She tells us how that happened, why she changed her mind about people and what her Trump supporting family taught her.
61 minutes | 8 months ago
Leaving Al-Qaeda with Aimen Dean and Thomas Small
Aimen Dean was a bombmaker for Al-Qaeda before leaving to become an MI6 informant. He and the Middle East expert Thomas Small join us to explore why and what we can learn from a 14th century Muslim scholar.
61 minutes | a year ago
Joseph Marks on positive discrimination
Social psychologist, rising star at UCL & MIT, and author of new book Messengers on why he’s changed his mind (several times) on positive discrimination. Plus, learn why the messenger is now the message and what you can do (and should NOT do) to be heard.
47 minutes | a year ago
Sonia Sodha on disagreeing with her younger self about student funding
Chief Leader writer at The Observer and The Guardian, Sonia Sodha was very active in the campaign to make higher education free. Fifteen years on, she has changed her mind. We talk about why, what her 20 year old self would make of it and the role of the media in polarization.
58 minutes | 2 years ago
Flattery and leadership with Jeff Pfeffer
Jeff Pfeffer once wrote that leaders often made little difference to a company, now he thinks they can. We talk about why telling people to be authentic is terrible advice and how flattery helps change people's minds with one of the world's leading management thinkers.
41 minutes | 2 years ago
Admitting you got it all wrong about online education with Prof Sarah Soule
Stanford Professor and expert in protest movements on how she performed a total u-turn on the value of online learning. From thinking it was never going to work to leading courses and persuading colleagues to join in. With such a strong background in protest we also talked to her about when they work, why and how in 2019 our political polarization problems are playing out so very differently.
42 minutes | 2 years ago
Hanging like a bat with Carwyn Jones
Carwyn Jones, the former First Minister of Wales talks leadership, why he switched his position to be in favour of another referendum on the UK's membership of the EU and what chastisement of children is reasonable.
38 minutes | 2 years ago
You don't always need to be nice with Prof Maggie Neale
World renowned negotiations expert Stanford's Professor Maggie Neale talks about becoming comfortable with conflict, learning that you don't always need to be nice and the importance of owning a dog.
58 minutes | 2 years ago
Nandos, teaching and the limits of capitalism with Dr Marcia Chatelain
Georgetown University's Dr Marcia Chatelain takes it to a meta level with us. We talk about her work looking at the relationship between race and fast food in the States, why people don't own up to mistakes and how she has changed her mind on capitalism.
36 minutes | 2 years ago
Changing your behaviour is easier than changing your mind with Steve Martin
When are people more likely to change their minds? Steve Martin, one of the world's leading experts on behaviour change and persuasion talks about the limitations of information in influencing people. 
36 minutes | 2 years ago
Getting women into politics
Former UK Government Minister Jo Swinson MP talks about gradually changing her mind on how to get more women into politics, the experiences and gentle persuasion that achieved it, and the times former colleagues in Government surprised her.
46 minutes | 2 years ago
Derek Black on why he left the White Nationalist movement
Derek Black was one the US White Nationalist movement's rising stars. But in his early 20s Derek changed his mind and now actively campaigns against those who hold these views. We unpack what caused him to abandon his beliefs and what could be done to encourage others to follow in his footsteps.
34 minutes | 2 years ago
The science behind changing minds with Professor Tali Sharot
Tali Sharot, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London and best selling author of The Optimism Bias and The Influential Mind joins us for this special episode of Changed My Mind to share her research on what the brain reveals about how beliefs are formed, what works to change others’ minds and what does not.
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