Ben Shapiro & Chris Williamson | Changing Minds: Why Flexibility is a Sign of Intelligence

Yeah it's one of my least favorite dynamics that somebody publicly changing their mind is seen as a mark of fickleness not a mark of intelligence like i don't know it it seems to me that a stupid person's idea of being smart is being unwavering but that in my experience doesn't seem to be the case. It's one thing to be unwavering on your principles it's another thing to be unwavering on the data. Sometimes the data just change right. Like there's new data or it turns out the old data were never based on anything. And at that point if the data changed then my opinion on the policy changes. If it turns out that the policy that I've been promoting turns out to be a giant failure. I mean by the way no good business would operate on this right If my business were pouring money down a rat hole and just kept pouring money down the rat hole no matter what because you know got to make sure that we're consistent on this then we'd lose. But when it comes to politics you're supposed to be unwaveringly in favor of the original position that you took.