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Sunday Pick: What to do when your beliefs are challenged (w/ Tenelle Porter) | from How to Be a Better Human
April 5, 2026·36 min·2 clips
Dr. Tennille Porter describes a first-date test: ask 'Do you believe in ghosts?' — and whether they say 'absolutely not, nothing could change my mind' tells you everything about their intellectual rigidity.
As heard by us
A calm case for staying open when certainty gets challenged.
This Sunday Pick treats belief as something worth challenging, testing, and learning from. Chris Duffy and professor and researcher Tanel Porter keep the conversation practical, which keeps intellectual humility usable instead of floating off into abstraction.
Why you'd press play
When certainty gets expensive, press play and let the idea do its work.
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