One of the biggest mistakes we can make in life is to ignore or reject the possibility that we might be dead wrong about something that is very important to us.
Don't do this! Question everything. Embrace doubt. Revisit and second guess your conclusions. Remember that humility is a pillar of good thinking. Sure, you might be the first perfect person in all of history and prehistory who is incapable of being fooled by all the mistakes, lies and delusions swarming around you every second—but I doubt it. I suppose you could be the first one ever to rise above the many deceptive quirks, traps, and biases that come standard with every human brain—but I doubt it. Understand that your brain instinctually fights hard to defend the beliefs it hosts, no matter how unjustified or irrational. That’s just what brains do. Know this and resist that impulse. Use your amazing, powerful brain to keep a check on your bizarre, flawed brain. The goal should not be to avoid changing your mind at all costs. The goal is to be correct, or at least as close to correct as possible. Wisdom is recognizing that you don't know everything (you don’t) and you can be fooled by your own thoughts (you can). Wise people change their minds when evidence and logic demand it. Honest people don't pretend to know things that they don't know. None of us will achieve perfection, but we all can expand our awareness, grow intellectually, and do our best to keep moving in the general direction of truth and reality. Contemporary Anthropologist, Historian and Teacher Guy Harrison who wrote a book titled: 50 Reasons People Believe In A God. Worth reading. Roland Toronto.
