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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

True for most sadly. But not for all.

I'm happy to be proven wrong. It means I learned something that day. And I love learning new things.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

I feel the same way, but it’s good to be aware of our own biases - there’s a bit of an aphorism that goes around about advertising and propaganda, that it works best on people who think it doesn’t work on them. If we think we’re immune to something, we let our guard down a bit. I used to think of myself as a very rational, intelligent, realistic guy, but in recent years I came to realise that I was kind of using that to protect my ego - I was wrong about a lot of things, and I could always find excuses to justify my beliefs as rational.

Maybe I still make the same flaw, I don’t know. Nowadays, I try to stay more focused on being nice than being right. That way, even if I’m wrong, I’m not making people’s day worse.

I’m not always successful with that.