my god do i love my luxury beliefs. i collect luxury beliefs like midcentury british women collected hermés scarves, they are some of my most prized possessions. here are a few of them
“What a belief allows or encourages you to do is the only truth it has.
William James’s pragmatism says: try a belief out if it appeals to you, give it time, and see what happens as a consequence of believing it; truth, he famously writes, happens to an idea, because you have to find out whether, and how, it works for... See more
When you observe other people, it’s probably a good heuristic to assume that the more emphatically they try to convince you of something, the less you should believe it.3 People confident in their beliefs don’t care if you agree with them .
And when you notice yourself trying to convince someone of your beliefs, it’s an opportunity to look at... See more