If you can’t remember a single instance when you have abandoned a strongly held belief…
Ouch. I can’t. Even reading the whole sequences didn’t trigger any feeling of updating. I learned quite a few things, and it just made sense as a whole. But nowhere I saw something that made me jump “wait, what?”, followed by the mandatory Oops.
I probably should take ideas I disagree with as seriously as possible. Surely there is one that will change my mind?
The updating needn’t necessarily be instant, it can take months or years. For me, it is never an instant change. Not much “wait, what?!”, it’s rather more like “this can’t be true, let’s try to find a counter-argument”, followed by “I can’t find a satisfactory counterargument, so there may be some merit in that” after some time gap. But after that, I am able to see that I don’t anymore hold a belief X which I was ready to defend fiercely a while ago.
A wince. I noticed my failure to update a while ago. (Or at least my failure to notice update. That doesn’t feel likely, but I’ve seen my Mother do it, saying “of course” instead of “oops”. It could let me update, which is good, but it wouldn’t get rid of the “I’ve been right all along” feeling, which is bad.)
Ouch. I can’t. Even reading the whole sequences didn’t trigger any feeling of updating. I learned quite a few things, and it just made sense as a whole. But nowhere I saw something that made me jump “wait, what?”, followed by the mandatory Oops.
I probably should take ideas I disagree with as seriously as possible. Surely there is one that will change my mind?
The updating needn’t necessarily be instant, it can take months or years. For me, it is never an instant change. Not much “wait, what?!”, it’s rather more like “this can’t be true, let’s try to find a counter-argument”, followed by “I can’t find a satisfactory counterargument, so there may be some merit in that” after some time gap. But after that, I am able to see that I don’t anymore hold a belief X which I was ready to defend fiercely a while ago.
Was that “ouch” an oops, or a wince?
A wince. I noticed my failure to update a while ago. (Or at least my failure to notice update. That doesn’t feel likely, but I’ve seen my Mother do it, saying “of course” instead of “oops”. It could let me update, which is good, but it wouldn’t get rid of the “I’ve been right all along” feeling, which is bad.)