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The more certain you are, the less you know. This isn't some throw away line. The more you foreclose the possibility of being wrong, the less likely you are to listen to arguments against your beliefs, or believe evidence that contravenes it.

I look around, and I see more and more people enslaved to a rabid certainty of what's right and what the future holds.

If you start a sentence with "nothing can convince me ..." you might well say "let me warn you, I'm a closed-minded zealot on this particular topic."

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Lebanese Hodl 2y ago

Too many close-minded zealots in our World… whether it’s climate or religion. The line between conviction and fanaticism is thin.

Ava 2y ago

Systèmes de croyances bien ancrés et manque d'ouverture d'esprit.. et pour ça il n'y a pas de remèdes.. Autant ne pas se forcer à faire du matraquage autant laisser l'autre faire ses propres expériences

Lebanese Hodl 2y ago

Rien à redire 👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼

Ava 2y ago

Je vous en prie.. Bienvenue dans mon monde d'évaluation-diagnodtic approfondi spécifique dans le Monde de tous les handicaps qu'ils soient en d'une inclusion durable dans le Travail.. D'où la nécessité d'explorer toute forme de compensations humaines et techniques adaptées à chaque individu. On se doit d'être humble.

MattA 2y ago

The only thing I'm certain about is that..

I don't really know shit about shit

Hoshi 2y ago

Sokrates

pam 2y ago

It's a good reminder to stay humble and open-minded. I'm realizing how much I don't understand. But not everyone can explain diff perspectives w/out negative emotions - angst, ego, arrogance and sometimes we get wrapped up in it too. Hence perhaps it’s not just about being open-minded but also filtering unnecessary elements in conversations to stay focused on the context. This is something that’s been on my mind lately - some way of exercising the frontal + parietal lobe better, or a quick intercept as a way of conditioning

On a diff note, I finished a book of Albert Einstein's writings. I thought you might like this piece.

(And also his take at diff time frames of his life on democracy, socialism, russia, disarmament, and peace, given his involvement in creating atom bombs, was fairly interesting)