Scepticism is important. It’s a willingness to question, and the courage to change when you discover something new is true.
Denial is a blatant rejection of reality with no room to change your mind.
Scepticism is a virtue. Denialism is ignorant.
The question to tell the difference, is ‘what data would change your mind?’
Because if you can’t change your mind when presented with new data, your head is in the sand.
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One of the greatest lies we tell ourselves is that we’re falling behind. That someone else is ahead.
As a young man I associated strength with force; louder voices, sharper opinions, firm lines in the sand.
There’s a strange kind of pride we’ve developed in being exhausted. But even lions, the king of the jungle, rest.