It’s easy to have strong opinions and loose principles, but the aim is to achieve the opposite.
The Thoughts of Others
“I don’t have to believe everything I think. I don’t have to internalise every emotion I feel. When I start to form an opinion, that’s just a hypothesis. Let me go out into the world, run some experiments, observe, talk to people and test the hypothesis. I should then be surrounding myself with people who don’t just agree with my conclusions, but actually challenge my thought process. The goal of that is to break us free of overconfident cycles, where we take pride in our knowledge – that leads us to confirmation bias. Then we become a little bit arrogant.” – Adam Grant
