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“Criticism is a privilege that you earn — it shouldn’t be your opening move in an interaction…The notion that the only way you can critically engage with a person’s ideas is to take a shot at them, is to be openly critical — this is actually nonsense...
“Some of the most effective ways in which you deal with someone’s ideas are to treat them completely at face value, and with an enormous amount of respect. That’s actually a faster way to engage with what they’re getting at than to lob grenades in their direction…
“If you’re going to hold someone to what they believe, make sure you accurately represent what they believe...I feel I change my mind all the time. And I sort of feel that’s your responsibility as a person, as a human being —
—to constantly be updating your positions on as many things as possible. And if you don’t contradict yourself on a regular basis, then you’re not thinking.”
If you create a system where you make it impossible, politically, for people to change [their] mind, then you’re in trouble."
- Malcom Gladwell
- Malcom Gladwell
Said another way, if you stop learning and growing, you find yourself perfectly equipped for a world that no longer exists ..
