{"id":2684,"date":"2020-11-25T14:31:58","date_gmt":"2020-11-25T19:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/?p=2684"},"modified":"2020-11-25T14:31:58","modified_gmt":"2020-11-25T19:31:58","slug":"words-to-live-by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/?p=2684","title":{"rendered":"Words to Live By"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m copying and posting this here to remind myself, from time to time, of the message.<\/p>\n<div class=\"usertext-body may-blank-within md-container \">\n<div class=\"md\">\n<blockquote><p>Well hey, here&#8217;s a valuable piece of information for you.<\/p>\n<p>Most things, fairly universally, you&#8217;re wrong about. Yes, it&#8217;s true. Most of the things which you believe you&#8217;re right about &#8211; you are in fact wrong about. To some degree, either by having an incomplete picture of facts but believing you&#8217;ve got a complete one, or holding differing viewpoints and not being aware of it, or making a judgement on an incorrect assumption or even bad information you&#8217;ve received&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s just that most of the time the amount of your inaccuracy doesn&#8217;t matter. But accepting that fact is important because it allows room for you to accept errors in your thinking on important issues.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re not infallible, you&#8217;re not so great, you don&#8217;t know much. But that&#8217;s OK. Because none of us are infallible, none of us are that great, none of us know all that much.<\/p>\n<p>But if you&#8217;re humble enough &#8211; you&#8217;ll keep learning. Slowly decreasing the margin of our error is all we can hope to do. If you believe you&#8217;ve fully closed it&#8230;that it&#8217;s reached 0, that you&#8217;ve finally got it all figured out and there is no more error&#8230;well then you&#8217;re just flying blind now. It may take a while, but you&#8217;ll eventually crash &#8211; as any pilot with closed eyes eventually does.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"author may-blank id-t2_kvkxh\" href=\"https:\/\/old.reddit.com\/user\/Bricka_Bracka\">Bricka_Bracka<\/a> via <a href=\"https:\/\/reddit.com\/r\/science\/comments\/k0qm01\/dogmatic_people_are_characterised_by_a_belief\/gdk5jyf\/\">Reddit<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m copying and posting this here to remind myself, from time to time, of the message. Well hey, here&#8217;s a valuable piece of information for you. Most things, fairly universally, you&#8217;re wrong about. Yes, it&#8217;s true. Most of the things which you believe you&#8217;re right about &#8211; you are in fact wrong about. To some &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/?p=2684\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Words to Live By&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[585,584,46],"class_list":["post-2684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","tag-best-of-reddit","tag-humble","tag-quotes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4o3FW-Hi","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2685,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2684\/revisions\/2685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}