A thought-provoking exploration of how people really change their minds, and how
persuasion is possible.
In Stop Being Reasonable, Eleanor Gordon-Smith weaves a narrative that
illustrates the limits of human reason. Here, she tells the stories of people
who have radically altered their beliefs--from the woman who had to reckon with
her husband's terrible secret to the man who finally left the cult he had been
raised in since birth. Gordon-Smith shows how we can change the course of our
own lives, and asks: what made someone change course? How should their reversals
affect how we think about our own beliefs? And in an increasingly divided world,
what