VER-XV-0036
“I admitted I was wrong because the evidence said so, and it felt clean.”
Most people defend a position long past the point the facts deserted it, ego dressed up as conviction. You looked at what was actually true and changed your mind. That is not weakness; it is the rarest kind of strength. Seeing the world as it really is sometimes means letting go of how you wanted it to be.
Your Practice
- Write what you used to believe and what changed it. Name the evidence specifically.
- Notice how little the world ended for admitting it. The fear was bigger than the cost.
- Find one more belief you're holding that the facts may have already outgrown.
- Hold your views as well-tested, not as identity. Then changing them costs you nothing real.
The Architects
“Read enough to develop your intuitions, then trust your intuitions.”
Geoffrey Hinton, Interview with Andrew Ng, 'Heroes of Deep Learning' (deeplearning.ai, 2017), as condensed in DeepLearning.AI's official published summary