9/30/2018 Why Facts Don?t Change Our Minds https://jamesclear.com/why-facts-dont-change-minds 1/11 JAMES CLEAR Why Facts Don t Change Our Minds by James Clear (staging.jamesclear.com/about)????| ???? Decision Making (https://jamesclear.com/decision-making), Life Lessons (https://jamesclear.com/life- lessons) The economist J.K. Galbraith once wrote, ?Faced with a choice between changing one?s mind and proving there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy with the proof.? Leo Tolstoy was even bolder: ?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