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The biggest mistake people make when trying to persuade others

By Jay Conger · Fast Company · 11/2/2026

Here’s the bad news: The deeper your understanding of an issue and the stronger your conviction about the solution, the worse you often become at persuasion. It’s due to a cognitive trap that the fields of behavioral economics and neuroscience have spent decades documenting: the curse of knowledge…

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