What if I am wrong is tuff, but this!
As Mark says: "Many people are able to ask themselves if they're wrong, but few are able to go the extra step and admit what it would mean if they were wrong. That's because the potential meaning behind our wrongness is often painful. Not only does it call into question our values, but it forces us to consider what a different, contradictory value could potentially look and feel like." I have done this with core beliefs that I grew up with and had strongly adhered to. Beliefs that I thought where about love but came to realize where more about fear. And that was very painful but it made my life better, it made me more free. It made me able to love and accept myself and others more freely. And I think this is one of the things I love so much about this book is that it is helping me ask these questions again. Just because the beliefs I had before were wrong doesn't mean the ones I have now are right. It's not always right and wrong, often it's just less wrong. And realizing that you might just be less wrong rather than right can help you dig deeper, to get to the root, the meaning. For most of my life I have taken a stance on something that is a hot topic right now, so I'll just call it "A". I still feel strongly about A but what I asked "What would it mean if I was wrong? I began to see that A was a symptom rather than the problem itself. That to solve the problem we need to go deeper. So tough as it may be, to make our lives and the world better, we really need to ask not just what if I am wrong? We also need to understand that it's often not a choice of right and wrong at all, but often less wrong rather than right and we need to ask what does that mean?
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