I'm Certain About This!

Approaching life with humility and curiosity.

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I love being certain.

While I love it when I’m certain about something, it is indeed a rare occasion.

Voltaire, who was known to drink 100 cups of coffee a day said, "Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous."

While we believe we are right about probably quite a bit in our lives, we cannot be certain about everything.

That's okay.

We have to operate with some assumptions, and when new information comes along, it changes our understanding.

I bring this up because being certain about too many things closes the door to discovery.

To discover new ways of working, we must be humble enough to open our minds to the idea that our current understanding of the world might be wrong.

Humility and curiosity are a potent combination.

I believe some things very strongly. I operate as if that view is correct. We never know all truth. We can only seek it and hope to get a bit nearer to it each time.

We iterate towards the truth, towards certainty. We need to be humble and open in our approach; of that, I'm certain.

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As Michael Crichton remarked, I remain "...certain there is too much certainty in the world."

🌀 Here are some reflection questions to challenge being certain.

🌱 What have you changed your mind about? Why?

🌱 Where can you embrace your curiosity to discover a new perspective?

🌱 How might you approach this week with an open mind, humility, and curiosity?