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Stop Being Reasonable

Seven Stories of How We Really Change Our Minds

Author: Eleanor Gordon-Smith  

SHORTLISTED for Australian Book Design Awards 2020 Best Designed Autobiography/Biography/Memoir Nonfiction Cover

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SHORTLISTED for Australian Book Design Awards 2020 Best Designed Autobiography/Biography/Memoir Nonfiction Cover

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What if you're not who you think you are?

What if you don't really know the people closest to you?

And what if your most deeply-held beliefs turn out to be...wrong?

In Stop Being Reasonable, philosopher Eleanor Gordon-Smith tells gripping true stories that show the limits of human reason. Susie realises her husband harbours a terrible secret, Dylan leaves the cult he's been raised in since birth, Alex discovers he can no longer return to his former identity after impersonating someone else on reality TV. All of them radically alter their beliefs about the things that matter most.

What makes them change course? What does this say about our own beliefs? And, in an increasingly divided world, what does it teach us about how we might change the minds of others?

Inspiring, moving and perceptive,Stop Being Reasonable is a mind-changing exploration of the murky place where philosophy and real life meet.

`I knew how piercingly smart Eleanor Gordon-Smith is, and what a curious and resolute interviewer. But I was unprepared for how entertainingly she writes! I read this with pleasure.' - Ira Glass

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Publisher
NewSouth Publishing
Published
1st May 2019
Pages
240
ISBN
9781742235875

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