Great review and post, leaves me with a lot more hope for positive, non-coercive, and non-guilting/brow-beating change in beliefs. I read the book before reading your review and agree with your summary, and I would go so far as thanking you for raising/summarising points made in the book that I didn’t get during my own read-through. At this point I have a pretty firm belief that (as they say in Inception) positive motivation is stronger than negative motivation, at least for the purposes of long-term, intentional activities like cultivating an open attitude to facts and reason in the self.
Great review and post, leaves me with a lot more hope for positive, non-coercive, and non-guilting/brow-beating change in beliefs. I read the book before reading your review and agree with your summary, and I would go so far as thanking you for raising/summarising points made in the book that I didn’t get during my own read-through. At this point I have a pretty firm belief that (as they say in Inception) positive motivation is stronger than negative motivation, at least for the purposes of long-term, intentional activities like cultivating an open attitude to facts and reason in the self.