Ask HN: How would you change your mind?
It's probably not difficult in the same way running a marathon is. It's not the sort of thing you could treat with willpower and discipline alone. What makes it difficult is how convinced you are you shouldn't change your mind. You think your current opinions are correct. But besides yourself being mistaken without realizing it, you are also convinced other people -- the ones trying to help change your mind -- are mistaken too. You don't even entertain a contradictory thought. You are being relentless but with only the bad parts.
If you wanted to change your mind then, how would you do it?
How would you collide your misconceptions with those of others and come away a better person? And how can you do that as systematically as you train for a marathon?
The surprising thing is it feels like something that requires loose shamelessness than strict discipline. You have to admit, as often as possible, that you don't have the answers. A weak willpower appears to get you further here since you don't fight each counterargument to what you thought you knew.
What do you, personally, do right now to change your mind? Have you discovered tricks that help? Do some tricks work better than others?
Is there a process to the madness?
[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7895364