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Holding the belief that I’m always to some degree wrong may be the single most useful and freeing phenomenon I’ve ever experienced.

9:46 PM · Dec 13, 2020Twitter for iPhone

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It makes constantly learning and questioning oneself almost morally obligatory — and knowing that you are never fully “right” mitigates the instinct to defensiveness which makes it easier to parse new information with a clear head.

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elaborate?

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Love this. I try to be directionally correct about the most important things.

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I've found uncertainty very freeing in my own life

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I agree, but there have been a few times where I have lost conversations about things I’m right about because I didn’t have that stubborn sense of being so sure where my opponent did

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I love it! I try and do the same, it’s hard sometimes... This is a main difference between science and religion right?

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Allowing for the potential of Two perspective points, an Observation made with Both A and B in conclusion of X.

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💯... well, 99.

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Corollary: there’s always multiple shades to an argument or a position.

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i think this attitude is particularly important for people in a position of power, especially public policy - where verifiability of hypothesis is much harder, and learnings are much costlier.

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