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Regularly question your certainty.
"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." - Mark Twain
But alongside the conviction required to be misunderstood, the greats seem to balance an interesting tension:
Certainty is often more dangerous than uncertainty.
The most dangerous ideas are the ones
... See moreIt’s enormously disorienting to simply say, “I don’t know.” But it’s infinitely more rewarding to understand than to be right — even if that means changing your mind about a topic, an ideology, or, above all, yourself.
Matter
“A strategy for thinking clearly: Rather than trying to be right, assume you are wrong and try to be less wrong.
Trying to be right has a tendency to devolve into protecting your beliefs.
Trying to be less wrong has a tendency to prompt more questions and intellectual humility.”
Trying to be right has a tendency to devolve into protecting your beliefs.
Trying to be less wrong has a tendency to prompt more questions and intellectual humility.”
James Clear • 3 Ideas, 2 Quotes, 1 Question (August 29, 2019) | James Clear
How to keep getting smarter
The smartest people I’ve met: They retrain their minds to enjoy being wrong.
They get a dopamine hit when proven wrong because they’re excited to be closer to the truth. The truth is addictive.
In contrast, if you refuse to lose a debate, your brain keeps running old firmware.