Books That Changed My Mind
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- Active 7h ago
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Nishant Kumar
Started the club
Not books you enjoyed. Books that moved you off a position you'd genuinely held for years. This is a Chaptra house club — set up and moderated by us to get the conversation going. Open to everyone; jump in anywhere.
What they're talking about
What changed, exactly?
Follow-up thread for specifics. Not "it opened my eyes" — the actual proposition you'd have defended before and wouldn't now.
Nishant Kumar1d agoHas a badly written book ever convinced you anyway?
Tedious, poorly argued, irritating — and right. Does that say something about the argument, or about us?
Nishant Kumar1d agoThe book you resisted and lost to
You went in to argue with it. It won. What was it?
Nishant Kumar1d agoIf you can't name a book that changed your mind, you've been reading to be agreed with
Most reading is confirmation with a bibliography. We pick authors whose conclusions we already share and call the resulting glow "learning". Actual mind-changing is rare, uncomfortable, and usually involves a book you didn't enjoy. So — name one. What did you believe going in, and what do you believe now?
Nishant Kumar1d agoWhere the talking happens
No rooms yet.
Rooms keep a club's conversations apart — one for the current book, one for anything else.
House rules
- Say what you thought before. Without the before, there's no change to talk about.
Who's here
- Nishant Kumar
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