For six weeks we’ve gone for the contested stuff: a shadowy cabal, immigration, abortion, guns, voting, DEI. Many of you showed up with strong, thoughtful views. Some think these conversations are pointless because nobody changes their mind. So this week, let’s look at that directly.
What’s changed your mind? And what was it like?
Some places we can start:
- Personal. When did you last change your mind about something you cared about? What did it: a person, an argument, a fact, an experience?
- The feeling. What did it feel like from the inside? Loss, relief, embarrassment, freedom?
- The frame. Have you ever kept your position but seen it differently, noticing the lens you’d been looking through? What changed?
- The other way around. Have you ever changed someone else’s mind? Did arguing do it, or something else?
- The whole. Pick a disagreement we’ve had here. What do both sides share? What is neither willing to concede? In what ways are they the same?
- Steelman yourself. What view do you hold now that a past you would argue hardest against?
Lots of love,
Jordan Myska Allen (UpTrust CEO)