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Stop Being Reasonable windy city magicA 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

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