Do Right By The Right Side

That left side could be anything. It could be something personal and low-stakes, like “I should buy the new iPhone model” or something more substantial, like “global warming is the result of human industrial waste interacting with the atmosphere”.

The right side is where we will have to do a bit of thinking. That’s where this practice can yield dividends. Having to understand what would prove us wrong forces us to do 3 important things:

• clarify what our actual belief is
• confront the possibility that we could be wrong
• tacitly commit to changing our mind under some specific conditions