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The author of the video recommends that we all pick one belief we hold dear and make the conscious effort to steelman its opposite. This not only takes intellectual courage, it also requires effort and time.
Which led me to realize that I don’t do anywhere near enough of that myself, even as I preach it. The busy everyday life gets in the way of deep thinking.
Reading might seem like a temporary reprieve from the daily firehose, but it is also a purveyor of new ideas, which then need to be reexamined critically (after all, Mein Kampf was also a book). We should probably spend as much time annotating and critically evaluating every book as we spend reading it, and that doesn’t sound like relaxation anymore.
Hence, I realize that I tend to distance myself from any belief, as a form of temporary compromise, halfway between holding them uncritically (which is functionally stupid), and investing time and effort to examine them (which is potentially stressful). 2/2 1 reply
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