The Dangers of Pure Certainty
And it's these moments of insecurity, of deep despair that we become susceptible to an insidious entitlement believing that we deserve to cheat a little to get our way, that other people deserve to be punished, that we deserve to take what we want, and sometimes violently.
It's the backward law again: the more you try to be certain about something, the more uncertain and insecure you will feel.
But the converse is true as well: the more you embrace being uncertain and not knowing, the more comfortable you will feel in knowing what you don't know.
Uncertainty is the root of all progress and all growth. As the old adage goes, the man who believes he knows everything learns nothing. We can not learn anything without first not knowing something. The more we admit we do not know, the more opportunities we gain to learn.
It's the backward law again: the more you try to be certain about something, the more uncertain and insecure you will feel.
But the converse is true as well: the more you embrace being uncertain and not knowing, the more comfortable you will feel in knowing what you don't know.
Uncertainty is the root of all progress and all growth. As the old adage goes, the man who believes he knows everything learns nothing. We can not learn anything without first not knowing something. The more we admit we do not know, the more opportunities we gain to learn.
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