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Why We Need to Think for Ourselves
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Herd Mentality
As human beings, we are made to learn and adopt a set of beliefs, never to be questioned. We develop automatic systems that get accustomed to a way of thinking and living, and anything that counters our beliefs is deemed false.
Blindingly following instructions and doing what all others are doing is a form of herd mentality and is devoid of any real thinking.
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Think For Your Life
Instead of following the so-called experts, the recommendations of artificial intelligence and the advice given on news channels, we need to think for our own life, using common sense, logic, gut instinct, experience and our environmental cues.
We need to keep our eyes and ears open, not to be led by people who themselves do not know what to do and are only following an agenda.
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Diverse Opinions
While we need to consume less social media, doing a diverse set of readings is probably a good idea to broaden our view, and specialization in this age is something that is increasingly like a horse with blinders.
The trick is to question everything and stay well-informed and unbiased.
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Drowning In Information
The deluge of information, opinions, data, choice makes us create tremendous amounts of anxiety in us to maximize and optimize our choices to perfection, and we are better off by ‘satisficing’ being content with our less than perfect choice, and makes us lead more fulfilling lives.
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Perspectives
Everyone’s perspectives are just that, limited world-views which are biased, incomplete and discriminatory.
We need to bridge the mind-gap and see the world through the eyes of other people, leading to an active adoption of other people's perspectives.
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Preserving optionality
Preserving optionality means avoiding limiting choices or dependencies. It means staying open to opportunities and always having a backup plan.
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Having options
We are faced with options all the time, but life-altering ones often come up during times of great change. These options are the ones we have the hardest time capitalizing on.
If we’ve specialized too much, change is a threat, not an opportunity. Thus, if we aren’t certain where the opportunities are going to be (and we never are), then we need to make choices to keep our options open.
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How we perceive philosophy
When most people think of philosophy, they believe philosophers simply argue about arguing. Philosophy is viewed as impractical and irrelevant to current issues.
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Defining philosophy
Philosophy is examining our understanding of reality and knowledge. Philosophy consists of three major branches:
- Metaphysics - What is true about existence.
- Epistemology - How we can know that it is true. Epistemology has given us science, logic/reason, economics, psychology, and other theories of knowledge.
- Ethics - What actions we should take as a result of this knowledge. Ethics contains concepts such as democracy, human rights, the treatment of animals, and the environment.
When you order your thoughts into a coherent belief system, you are engaging in philosophy. To criticize philosophy, you must rely on philosophy.
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Having clear work boundaries
Work boundaries help secure our time, energy, purpose and how fulfilled we feel.
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Understanding our worth and value
When we truly value our time, energy, skills, and expertise, we become a more careful about what we can take on and what we can easily drop.
Those that feel they're not enough can throw themselves into work and try compensate that unbalance with their output, usefulness and indispensability. But in doing so, they're more likely to say yes to what’s asked of them even when they'd rather say no. This is a clear path toward burnout.
It’s OK to assert your boundaries
When we communicate honestly and clearly, we’re leaving no uncertainty behind our intention and our meaning.
When starting a conversation in which we’d like to assert a boundary, we can sometimes let apologies creep in. But being apologetic makes us sound primed for a “no” or for some reprisal before anyone has had any input.