change one's mind

It gives ample time to say goodbye to family and friends as well as time to change one’s mind.

The genre can provoke a rare response: It can persuade one to change one’s mind.

“That special brand of collective decision making requires internal trust — trust to change one’s mind, trust to adopt and circulate tentative conclusions and trust that your colleagues are genuinely engaging with you,” she said.

“The key is to be ready to change one’s mind as the data comes out,” says Rustom Antia, an immunologist at Emory University.

“Those pleas mostly fell on closed ears, obviously with tragic results. You listened, Sia. It is so very difficult to listen, and harder yet to change one’s mind based on new information. You have to be brave to listen.”