40% of Republicans think that President Trump might have coerced the Ukraine to provide damaging information about Joe Biden.
This is despite the fact President Trump has said he did it.
That means 60% would rather not believe the facts because to believe them means admitting something they’d rather not acknowledge and changing their beliefs.
As we are presented with more and more information, it becomes increasingly important to seek the truth and to adjust our beliefs accordingly.
But increasingly we see the opposite; people calling opinions facts because they don’t want to change their minds.
Perhaps a measure of a person is whether they will change their mind based on new information. Because if they won’t they lose all credibility.
Are you prepared to change your mind?
In arguments, we often want to be right. But being right is not the same as being wise.
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.
I can't remember a time in my life when I didn't have ambition.
We sometimes believe strength means self-sufficiency — that being independent means being isolated.
We often try to outrun the storm, emotionally, physically, spiritually.
We’re entering an age where machines do our thinking before we’ve even had a chance to try.