How many times have you been 100% certain about something, only to find out you were wrong? For me, it’s probably five times a day. It wasn’t until I heard Joseph Goldstein articulate this idea in a lecture on the Waking Up app that it struck me how important an insight this is: “Certainty is not an indication of truth.” Many of the things you are certain about eventually prove to be wrong. And the faster you can rework your belief system in the face of contradicting evidence, the better off you’ll be.
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