Thought Swaps: It’s Okay to Change Your Mind
Permission to question, pause, and change your mind in a world that rewards false certainty.
Pocket-Sized: 4 x 6.5 inches
Length: 151 pages
ISBN: 979-8-9900266-9-8
Price: $9.99
Published: January 30, 2026
48 thought swaps to help you recognize thinking traps and question assumptions
Section intros with real-world examples to show what critical thinking looks like in practice
Permission to think for yourself without fear of judgment or social pressure
Most people know they should think critically but nobody teaches them what that actually looks like or gives them permission to admit they don’t know something. Thought Swaps: It’s Okay to Change Your Mind shows you the internal dialogue of someone who thinks critically, using 48 thought swaps that replace the fear of looking stupid with the confidence to question, pause, and change your mind. The book covers both the mindset shifts that make critical thinking possible and the practical application of spotting faulty logic, evaluating sources, and checking your own blind spots.
The moment fear stops you from asking questions or changing your mind is when you stop thinking critically.
We live in a culture where admitting uncertainty feels like social suicide and changing your mind feels like weakness.
Loudness and popularity have started to feel like proof and that’s a critical thinking problem.
Critical thinking isn’t just a skillset, it’s knowing that it’s okay not to have all the answers but it’s not okay to pretend you do.
Emotions aren’t evidence, feeling strongly about something doesn’t mean you’re right.
Credible sources can still be wrong and confidence doesn’t equal correctness.
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Sample Interview Questions
- Why is it so hard to change your mind even when the evidence says you should?
- What’s the difference between critical thinking as a skill and critical thinking as a mindset?
- Why do people stay quiet in meetings when something doesn’t feel right?
- How do emotions get in the way of thinking without us realizing it?
- What does it actually look like to evaluate a source properly without becoming a full time fact checker?
- How do you think critically in a group without being seen as difficult?
- What’s the most common thinking trap you see people fall into?
- Where does someone start if they want to think more critically today?
Press Release
Thought Swaps: It’s Okay to Change Your Mind Shows How Confident Thinking Can Go Wrong
A new book gives readers permission to question, pause, and change their minds in a world that rewards false certainty.
PHILADELPHIA, PA – You’re in a meeting. Someone presents an idea with confidence and the room starts nodding. Something feels off, but you stay quiet. You’ve held an opinion for years, then new information surfaces and changing your mind now feels embarrassing. A frightening headline spreads through your office by lunch, and no one has read past the first paragraph.
These are the moments Philadelphia author and TEDx speaker Lyndsey Getty wrote her new book for.
Thought Swaps: It’s Okay to Change Your Mind (March 1, 2026, 979-8-9900266-9-8, $9.99) offers 48 practical thought swaps designed to interrupt false certainty and show how a skilled critical thinker actually responds. Each swap replaces a familiar unhelpful thought with one that makes space for questions, nuance, and better judgment.
One swap tackles the “grandma defense,” where someone claims a behavior is safe because their grandmother did it and lived to 104. The swap reframes the moment: “That’s one unusual case. It doesn’t show what typically happens. I need to look at patterns, not outliers.” Another swap breaks down misleading headlines, such as articles that turn self-reported feelings into scientific claims, and shows readers how to catch the difference before reacting.
“The moment fear stops you from asking questions or changing your mind is the moment thinking shuts down,” says Getty. “That discomfort isn’t danger. It’s the sign you’re learning.”
The book also addresses the emotional traps that derail clear thinking, including mistaking confidence for accuracy, anger for analysis, or strong feelings for facts. Getty reframes critical thinking as a mental habit grounded in humility rather than certainty.
“Thinking well doesn’t mean having all the answers,” she writes. “It means being honest about when you don’t.”
Thought Swaps: It’s Okay to Change Your Mind is available now on Amazon for $9.99.
ABOUT THE THOUGHT SWAPS SERIES
The Thought Swaps series pairs thoughts you recognize with adaptive swaps to show what healthy thinking actually sounds like from the inside. The series is part of Getty’s broader framework of thought literacy, an original skillset she developed and first published in 2023. All titles in the series are available on Amazon.
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Author Bio
Lyndsey Getty is a Philadelphia-based TEDx speaker and the creator of thought literacy, an original foundational skillset she developed and first published in 2023. She is the author of the Thought Swaps and Thoughtbooks series. Her work has been called “utterly remarkable” by a licensed clinical psychologist with over thirty years of experience.