Why Facts Don’t Change Our Opinions
Jeff • March 17, 2021
Leo Tolstoy once wrote, “The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him.” So, what’s going on here? Why are facts so hard to accept about subjects that we already have an opinion of? And why would anyone continue to believe a false or inaccurate idea… read more