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Being wrong about some things can help you be right about other things. Helps to be be laissez-faire about the truth economy in your head if you want to be efficient about increasing the net truthfulness of your reality. To be OCD about small truths is to fall prey to big lies.
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One reason is that the truth is usually more complicated than the falsehood, often in uninteresting but important ways. For example, believing falsehoods about minimum wage might get you to truths about compassion. Economic illiteracy is easier to fix than learned cruelty.