Friday, February 21, 2020

Embrace The Uncomfortable Luxury Of Changing One’s Mind

I always believed - "Changing our minds" is more important than "Love". Changing mind is one of the most fundamental elements from which everything including love builds on.

It might surprise many to hear this - Dogs do that more often and easily than any other species that I know of. More on this later, but understand that the roots of dog's unconditional love come from their learned (not innate) capacity to change their minds often.

None other than Gladwell says it beautifully (and he has done that to himself over and over again):
That’s your responsibility as a person, as a human being — to constantly be updating your positions on as many things as possible. And if you don’t contradict yourself on a regular basis, then you’re not thinking.
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If you create a system where you make it impossible, politically, for people to change [their] mind, then you’re in trouble

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