From the category archives:

Be Less Certain

That’s not what I meant!

So, I did something (small) that ruined something (relatively unimportant). Someone I Care About said, ‘Ah well, that was a dumb thing to do, but we all do dumb things from time to time…’ This really triggered a reaction in me. ‘It wasn’t dumb, how was I supposed to know you weren’t supposed to do [...]

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The missing 90 per cent

In order to have a coherent experience, we have to delete 99.9% of the data coming into our system from our conscious awareness. If we saw and experienced it all, we would go crazy. Yet we go in to situations with parts of us so certain. Certain of what’s happened, what’s been said, what people [...]

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Deliberate uncertainty – the second pillar

One of the most life-altering books I have read in recent times is Robert Burton’s On Being Certain. In it, he shows how certainty is just a sensation. Yet, we trust this sensation beyond any kind of appeal to reason. We ‘just know’. It seems to me that certainty is the at the root of [...]

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