people talk with so much certainty sometimes. i would say that is the most off-putting thing to me about internet discourse. the matter-of-factness of speech masking what is often at best half-baked hypothesis.

i might do this too sometimes tbh, idk. my instinct is to shield myself with a "i feel like" or an "i think". lmao

i agree. in settings where strength and leadership are important, makes sense to convey as such. e.g. at work if trying to execute on something and need to get buy-in from stakeholders.

chirping on the internet though i am not optimizing for that, just trying to see reality clearly/find truth.

yes but truth is not binary, there is a spectrum of confidence level that you might believe something is true. for the purposes of rhetoric though i agree that such qualifiers indicate hedging/weakness

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yes but truth is not binary, there is a spectrum of confidence level that you might believe something is true. for the purposes of rhetoric though i agree that such qualifiers indicate hedging/weakness

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If you're saying something is true, you inherently already feel or think that it is true. Including it in your statement makes it seem like you're hedging your bets and reduces the power of your argument/stance.

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in real life, if you don't convey complete certainty people won't follow your lead. "i think" is soft and perceived as weak

I overthink this actually. I value authenticity. Being authentic builds stronger connections with others. I occasionally use ‘I think’ or ‘I feel.’ depending on the context of the cast. BUT I’m careful not to do it too often, because then it comes across as insecure.

I think about this too, I usually remove the “I feel” or “i think” because 1. it’s *weaker* and 2. sometimes don’t want to make it about me by using I too much. But ya think it’s a little bit unauthentic. 

Glad you think about this too

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same here...mostly just parroting what they read somewhere, usually (we are all guilty to some degree)

I spent a few years in my late 20s mesmerized with the confidence others seemed have with economics/history/politics/technology etc. 

I felt I knew hardly anything even after studying it. Eventually figured out it's common to be confident and wrong.

i too am guilty

people are more likely to retort if you state things confidently/definitively, but it makes me feel weird sometimes

I am way guilty of using those shields. Only thing I know for sure is that I can’t possibly know everything