Petter Johansson : Do you really know why you do what you do?

Petter Johansson at TEDxUppsalaUniversity
Do you really know why you do what you do?  (transcript)
Summary
According to the speaker's research, we must understand that our attitudes are not set in stone. It's more flexible than we think. We think that we have self-knowledge, but what we have is self-interpretation.
Thus we can change the minds of others if we can only get them to engage with the issue and see it from the opposite view.
It is very hard to see something from an opposite view and to prove that we are wrong about ourselves. However, it leads us to choice blindness.
We have to know we don't know ourselves. We can use our flexibility to make a better relational life. 

Words in this story
manipulation /noun/ control, handling
inclination /noun/  tendency
consistent /adj/ (of a person, behavior, or process) unchanging in achievement or effect over a period of time.