My boring job gave my thoughts a lot of time to go wild. I became very unhappy because I came to some sweeping absolute negative conclusions. One good conversation later, things don't seem pointless anymore. I have gained patience through optimism (or is it optimism through patience?) The negative trains of thought, that seemed so perfectly sound before, seem ridiculous to me now. They were based on pessimistic premises.
I must never forget that our perception warped by our expectations which are formed by the beliefs we already have. Staying unbiased and open-minded is always unexpectedly tricky. My advice to anyone reading this would be to never underestimate how crazy a particular opinion or expectation you have now might appear to you in the near future, no matter how strongly you may believe it at the time.
In fact, the emotional conviction behind a view is the very thing that locks us into it and stops us from looking again to come to a new different conclusion. The more strongly you believe something, the more suspicious and doubting you must be of that belief!
Wait... does that mean that vice-versa we should therefore trust the knowledge that we doubt the most? Uurrrmm...... I'll be back... later...
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