How much you like or dislike an idea has almost no correlation with whether that idea is true.
It’s a hard truth to internalize, because we instinctively assume that the ideas we prefer must somehow be more factual, more irrefutable. But liking an idea doesn’t make it true, and disliking an idea doesn’t make it false.
So much of learning is the humbling realization that the things we once believed with confidence often weren’t so. The world stays the same – what changes is our willingness to check, to question, and to update.
The work, then, is simple: keep testing what you believe, and stay open to being wrong.
Good judgment flows from experience. Experience flows from bad judgment.
