"If an idea is really false, only by examining it openly can we determine that it is false. AT that point we will be better position to convince others that it is false than if we had let it fester in private, since our own avoidance of the issue serves as a tacit acknowledgement that it may be true. And if an idea is true, we had better accommodate our moral sensibilities to it, since no good can come from sanctifying a delusion" - What is Your Dangerous Idea book
What percentage of your ideas are false but yet you believe them to be true? I would venture to guess that at least one third of what I believe it is completely wrong. Can you honestly say that you agree with all of the ideas that your parents tried to install in your brain?
So if a certain percentage is wrong and you are big enough to recognize that then what do you do about it? It is not like you can go back and re-program yourself. You can but only over time. How? Keep putting in new ideas and challenge old ones with the belief that they must be wrong.
It is pretty scary but as the last part of the quote indicates,'..no good can come from sanctifying a delusion'.
Today's question is:
"What percentage of your ideas are false but yet you believe them to be true?"
What percentage of your ideas are false but yet you believe them to be true? I would venture to guess that at least one third of what I believe it is completely wrong. Can you honestly say that you agree with all of the ideas that your parents tried to install in your brain?
So if a certain percentage is wrong and you are big enough to recognize that then what do you do about it? It is not like you can go back and re-program yourself. You can but only over time. How? Keep putting in new ideas and challenge old ones with the belief that they must be wrong.
It is pretty scary but as the last part of the quote indicates,'..no good can come from sanctifying a delusion'.
Today's question is:
"What percentage of your ideas are false but yet you believe them to be true?"
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