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Changing Minds: The Art and Science of Changing Our Own and Other People's Minds
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Limited examples, has little respect for the changee
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I agree with many of the unenthusiastic reviews. The book could be much shorter and more effective if the author and editors had cut some of plentiful Harvard family stories. A few more peeves, as well. The author tries to be both a pundit (a word he uses too many times) and just 'ordinary folk'. He's trying to charm you with his folksiness and wonder with the world, and simultaneously wow you with his immense knowledge and insight. I'd rather he simply gave me information. The book seems targeted at people in business (it's published by the Harvard business school) who apparently can only remember things if they rhyme or all start with the same letters, (in this case "re-") like some slogan for a car commercial. Snippets of talk of 'integrity' are thrown in, to compensate for the condescension he seems to have for whoever's mind you're trying to change. One 'piece of advice' is to 'establish common links...In addition to their both being professors and intellectuals, Summers might have emphasized that he and West were the same age...' Good grief! I would hope that 'ordinary folk' (which I assume means non-professors and non-intellectuals) don't fall for such shallow tactics. Some style issues, which may or may not bother you: he has pet words, like 'amalgam' and 'pundit', which are used on every other page. The text in the paperback edition is a bit small, as if they just shrank the hardback pages, instead of re-typesetting the book.
Some useful ideas, but I recommend browsing the appendix, in your library first. Or you can have my copy. :-)
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