I'm Changing My Mind
Hopefully anyway...
I'm hoping I don't see things the same way in 2, 3, 5 or 10 years from now. The reason being, if I'm not allowing experience and new knowledge and wisdom to form and shape my opinions and thinking, am I really learning?
Disclaimer to anyone thinking I'm advocating for double mindedness and instability... No, that's not at all what I'm advocating.
If you haven't changed your opinions or views or reason and belief systems at all in recent memory, you may have stopped learning.
If you've completely overthrown your opinions, views or belief systems in recent memory is means either:
- You didn't know what you said, thought or believed.
- You were pressured to change by outside forces (political and otherwise) and you don't really know or believe what you proclaim to believe.
So, overthrowing something you know, opinionated or believe is a huge red flag.
But changing your perspective, opinion and outlook should be something you work towards, not work against.
Knowledge and truth are progressive. You never come to full knowledge or truth. They are things that once you plateau, you see a new peak to climb, and it never ends. It keeps us hungry.
Imagine our egos if we ever truly "arrived". I think this system of progressive knowledge and truth keeps us humble.
Disclaimer: Yes, there are absolute truths that don't change. :)
I'm hoping I don't see things the same way in 2, 3, 5 or 10 years from now. The reason being, if I'm not allowing experience and new knowledge and wisdom to form and shape my opinions and thinking, am I really learning?
Disclaimer to anyone thinking I'm advocating for double mindedness and instability... No, that's not at all what I'm advocating.
If you haven't changed your opinions or views or reason and belief systems at all in recent memory, you may have stopped learning.
If you've completely overthrown your opinions, views or belief systems in recent memory is means either:
- You didn't know what you said, thought or believed.
- You were pressured to change by outside forces (political and otherwise) and you don't really know or believe what you proclaim to believe.
So, overthrowing something you know, opinionated or believe is a huge red flag.
But changing your perspective, opinion and outlook should be something you work towards, not work against.
Knowledge and truth are progressive. You never come to full knowledge or truth. They are things that once you plateau, you see a new peak to climb, and it never ends. It keeps us hungry.
Imagine our egos if we ever truly "arrived". I think this system of progressive knowledge and truth keeps us humble.
Disclaimer: Yes, there are absolute truths that don't change. :)
Neural plasticity!! Ruts!! If we don't keep learning;; open too change, we will remain stagnant and no new neurons will form.
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